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| author | aarne <aarne@cs.chalmers.se> | 2008-06-25 16:54:35 +0000 |
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| committer | aarne <aarne@cs.chalmers.se> | 2008-06-25 16:54:35 +0000 |
| commit | e9e80fc389365e24d4300d7d5390c7d833a96c50 (patch) | |
| tree | f0b58473adaa670bd8fc52ada419d8cad470ee03 /doc | |
| parent | b96b36f43de3e2f8b58d5f539daa6f6d47f25870 (diff) | |
changed names of resource-1.3; added a note on homepage on release
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diff --git a/doc/gf3-release.html b/doc/gf3-release.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4f81e8a55 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/gf3-release.html @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="http://txt2tags.sf.net"> +<TITLE>GF 3.0</TITLE> +</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black"> +<P ALIGN="center"><CENTER><H1>GF 3.0</H1> +<FONT SIZE="4"> +<I>Krasimir Angelov, Björn Bringert, and Aarne Ranta</I><BR> +</FONT></CENTER> + +<P> +GF Version 3.0 is a major revision of GF. The source language is a superset of the +language in 2.9, which means backward compatibility. But the target languages, the +compiler implementation, and the functionalities (e.g. the shell) have undergone +radical changes. +</P> +<P> +The release of GF 3.0 is projected for 27 June. As usual, the developing sources +are available all the time via Darcs. +</P> +<H2>New features</H2> +<P> +Here is a summary of the main novelties visible to the user: +</P> +<UL> +<LI><B>Size</B>: the source code and the executable binary size have gone + down to about the half of 2.9. +<LI><B>Portability</B>: the new back end format PGF (Portable Grammar Format) is + much simpler than the old GFC format, and therefore easier to port to new + platforms. +<LI><B>Multilingual web page support</B>: as an example of portability, GF 3.0 provides a + compiler from PGF to JavaScript. There are also JavaScript libraries for creating + translators and syntax editors as client-side web applications. +<LI><B>Incremental parsing</B>: there is a possibility of word completion when + input strings are sent to the parser. +<LI><B>Application programmer's interfaces</B>: both source-GF and PGF formats, + the shell, and the compiler are accessible via high-level APIs. +<LI><B>Resource library version 1.4</B>: more coverage, more languages; some of + the new GF language features are exploited. +</UL> + +<H2>Non-supported features</H2> +<P> +There are some features of GF 2.9 that will <I>not</I> work in the 2.7 June release. +</P> +<UL> +<LI>Java Editor GUI: we now see the JavaScript editor as the main form of + syntax editing. +<LI>Pre-module multi-file grammar format: the grammar format of GF before version 2.0 + is still supported, but its include mechanism is not; this means that grammars + consisting of multiple files have to be concatenated before use. +<LI>Probabilistic GF grammars. +<LI>Some output formats: LBNF. +<LI>Some GF shell commands: while the main ones will be supported with their familiar + syntax and options, some old commands have not been included. +</UL> + +<P> +Users who want to have these features are welcome to contact us, +and even more welcome to contribute code that restores them! +</P> +<H2>GF language extensions</H2> +<P> +Operations for defining patterns. +</P> +<P> +Inheritance of overload groups. +</P> + +<!-- html code generated by txt2tags 2.4 (http://txt2tags.sf.net) --> +<!-- cmdline: txt2tags -thtml gf3-release.txt --> +</BODY></HTML> |