release notes as html; links to linux bin, lib, src

author: aarne <aarne@chalmers.se> 2010-04-23 11:42:29 +0000
committer: aarne <aarne@chalmers.se> 2010-04-23 11:42:29 +0000
commit: 7ba951d8c8dd62716999919fb896ffaef90ee7a3 (patch)
tree: 49fa30f59055adfbf9d8b713754fd4c6de1a47cb /download
parent: 81e5620540a43bb9b15168f7c900d75ca6219710 (diff)
4 files changed, 147 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/download/index.html b/download/index.html
index 6651bf3a7..8d950bcf7 100644
--- a/download/index.html
+++ b/download/index.html
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 </HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black">
 <P ALIGN="center"><CENTER><H1>Grammatical Framework Download and Installation</H1>
 <FONT SIZE="4">
+<I>Version 3.1.6, 23 April 2010</I><BR>
 </FONT></CENTER>
 
 <H2>Latest developer code</H2>
@@ -20,13 +21,19 @@ GF 3.1.6 released 23 May 2010.
 <LI>MacOS X (Snow Leopard):
 <LI>MacOS X (Leopard):
 <LI>Windows:
-<LI>Ubuntu Linux:
+<LI>Ubuntu Linux: 
+  <A HREF="gf-bin-3.1.6-i386-linux.gz"><CODE>gf-bin-3.1.6-i386-linux.gz</CODE></A>
+  (1.7 MB)
 <LI>compiled library package:
+  <A HREF="gf-lib-3.1.6.tar.gz"><CODE>gf-lib-3.1.6.tar.gz</CODE></A>
+  (4.4 MB)
 <LI>full source package (GF system, libraries, examples, documentation):
+  <A HREF="gf-src-3.1.6.tar.gz"><CODE>gf-src-3.1.6.tar.gz</CODE></A>
+  (11 MB)
 </UL>
 
 <P>
-What's new? See the <A HREF="release-3.1.6.txt">release notes</A>.
+What's new? See the <A HREF="release-3.1.6.html">release notes</A>.
 </P>
 <H2>Previous releases</H2>
 <P>
@@ -41,23 +48,14 @@ The Windows package is installed by just unpacking it anywhere.
 It finds the libraries relative to the <CODE>.exe</CODE> file.
 </P>
 <P>
-To install a binary package for Linux: uncompress the package by <CODE>tar -xfz</CODE>
-</P>
-<P>
-To compile and install from source on Mac or Linux, do:
+To install a binary package for Linux: uncompress the executable and
+put it somewhere on your path, renaming it to just <CODE>gf</CODE>. For instance:
 </P>
 <PRE>
-    tar xvfz gf-[VERSION].tgz
-    cd GF/src
-    runghc Setup configure --user
-    runghc Setup build
-    runghc Setup install
+    gunzip gf-bin-[version].gz
+    sudo mv gf-bin-[version] /usr/local/bin/gf
 </PRE>
 <P>
-The last command must be prefixed by <CODE>sudo</CODE>, if the installation is outside
-user-writeable area.
-</P>
-<P>
 To install the libraries (if done separately), unpack them in the place to which your
 <CODE>GF_LIB_PATH</CODE> points.
 </P>
@@ -72,6 +70,20 @@ If this variable hasn't been defined, it is useful define it, e.g.
     export GF_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gf/
 </PRE>
 <P></P>
+<P>
+To compile and install from source on Mac or Linux, do:
+</P>
+<PRE>
+    tar xvfz gf-[VERSION].tgz
+    cd GF/src
+    runghc Setup configure --user
+    runghc Setup build
+    runghc Setup install
+</PRE>
+<P>
+The last command must be prefixed by <CODE>sudo</CODE>, if the installation is outside
+user-writeable area.
+</P>
 
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diff --git a/download/index.txt b/download/index.txt
index bf006e6a5..958360929 100644
--- a/download/index.txt
+++ b/download/index.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Grammatical Framework Download and Installation
+Version 3.1.6, 23 April 2010
 
 
 ==Latest developer code==
@@ -11,12 +12,19 @@ GF 3.1.6 released 23 May 2010.
 - MacOS X (Snow Leopard):
 - MacOS X (Leopard):
 - Windows:
-- Ubuntu Linux:
+- Ubuntu Linux: 
+  [``gf-bin-3.1.6-i386-linux.gz`` gf-bin-3.1.6-i386-linux.gz]
+  (1.7 MB)
 - compiled library package:
+  [``gf-lib-3.1.6.tar.gz`` gf-lib-3.1.6.tar.gz]
+  (4.4 MB)
 - full source package (GF system, libraries, examples, documentation):
+  [``gf-src-3.1.6.tar.gz`` gf-src-3.1.6.tar.gz]
+  (11 MB)
 
 
-What's new? See the [release notes release-3.1.6.txt].
+What's new? See the [release notes release-3.1.6.html].
+
 
 ==Previous releases==
 
@@ -30,20 +38,12 @@ The MacOS packages are installed by clicking at the icons, as usual.
 The Windows package is installed by just unpacking it anywhere. 
 It finds the libraries relative to the ``.exe`` file.
 
-To install a binary package for Linux: uncompress the package by ``tar -xfz``
-
-
-To compile and install from source on Mac or Linux, do:
+To install a binary package for Linux: uncompress the executable and
+put it somewhere on your path, renaming it to just ``gf``. For instance:
 ```
-  tar xvfz gf-[VERSION].tgz
-  cd GF/src
-  runghc Setup configure --user
-  runghc Setup build
-  runghc Setup install
+  gunzip gf-bin-[version].gz
+  sudo mv gf-bin-[version] /usr/local/bin/gf
 ```
-The last command must be prefixed by ``sudo``, if the installation is outside
-user-writeable area.
-
 To install the libraries (if done separately), unpack them in the place to which your
 ``GF_LIB_PATH`` points.
 ```
@@ -55,4 +55,16 @@ If this variable hasn't been defined, it is useful define it, e.g.
   export GF_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gf/
 ```
 
+To compile and install from source on Mac or Linux, do:
+```
+  tar xvfz gf-[VERSION].tgz
+  cd GF/src
+  runghc Setup configure --user
+  runghc Setup build
+  runghc Setup install
+```
+The last command must be prefixed by ``sudo``, if the installation is outside
+user-writeable area.
+
+
 
diff --git a/download/release-3.1.6.html b/download/release-3.1.6.html
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5d3d2c956
--- /dev/null
+++ b/download/release-3.1.6.html
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
+<HTML>
+<HEAD>
+<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="http://txt2tags.sf.net">
+<TITLE>GF Version 3.1.6 Release Notes</TITLE>
+</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black">
+<P ALIGN="center"><CENTER><H1>GF Version 3.1.6 Release Notes</H1>
+<FONT SIZE="4">
+<I>23 April 2010</I><BR>
+</FONT></CENTER>
+
+<H1>Installation</H1>
+<P>
+The binaries now work out of the box for each platform and support
+completions (file names and parsing), because readline has been 
+changed to haskeline.
+</P>
+<P>
+To compile from source, GHC 6.12 is now required. But GHC is not needed
+if the binary executables are used.
+</P>
+<P>
+Binaries (<CODE>.gfo</CODE> and <CODE>.pgf</CODE> files) compiled with GF 3.1 are incompatible 
+with 3.1.6 and must either be removed; alternatively, the <CODE>-src</CODE> flag can be
+used when compiling.
+</P>
+<P>
+Notice the new place to send bug reports (see GF's welcome message)!
+</P>
+<H1>New features</H1>
+<P>
+Grammar language
+</P>
+<UL>
+<LI>increased support for dependent types (see <CODE>SUMO</CODE>,
+  <CODE>category-theory</CODE> and <CODE>nqueens</CODE> in <CODE>examples</CODE>)
+</UL>
+
+<P>
+Shell commands and options (see <CODE>help</CODE> in GF for more information) 
+</P>
+<UL>
+<LI><CODE>eb</CODE>: example-based grammar file conversion 
+  (see <CODE>examples/animals/QuestionI.gf</CODE>)
+<LI><CODE>vd = visualize_dependency</CODE>: show dependency tree
+<LI><CODE>vp = visualize_parse</CODE>: show parse tree
+<LI><CODE>gr, gt, mq, tq</CODE>: use a seed tree with metavariables
+<LI><CODE>gr, p, tq</CODE>: use <CODE>-probs=FILE</CODE> to bias or rank generated trees
+<LI><CODE>dg</CODE>: hide modules when printing dependency graph
+</UL>
+
+<P>
+Libraries
+</P>
+<UL>
+<LI>Urdu completed
+<LI>Turkish morphology completed
+</UL>
+
+<P>
+Examples
+</P>
+<UL>
+<LI>SUMO
+<LI>category-theory
+<LI>phrasebook
+<LI>nqueens
+</UL>
+
+<P>
+Internal
+</P>
+<UL>
+<LI>single PMCFG format for both linearization and parsing
+<LI>use of Haskeline for completion - more portable than Readline
+<LI>unicode support from Haskell 6.12 instead of home-made coding
+</UL>
+
+<H2>Issues</H2>
+<P>
+Javascript generation is not updated to the new PGF format.
+<A HREF="old-index.html">GF 3.1</A> should still be used for building Javascript applications.
+</P>
+
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diff --git a/download/release-3.1.6.txt b/download/release-3.1.6.txt
index c8263ffbb..843499757 100644
--- a/download/release-3.1.6.txt
+++ b/download/release-3.1.6.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 GF Version 3.1.6 Release Notes
-
+23 April 2010
 
 
 =Installation=
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ Internal
 - unicode support from Haskell 6.12 instead of home-made coding
 
 
+==Issues==
+
+Javascript generation is not updated to the new PGF format.
+[GF 3.1 old-index.html] should still be used for building Javascript applications.
+
+
author	aarne <aarne@chalmers.se>	2010-04-23 11:42:29 +0000
committer	aarne <aarne@chalmers.se>	2010-04-23 11:42:29 +0000
commit	7ba951d8c8dd62716999919fb896ffaef90ee7a3 (patch)
tree	49fa30f59055adfbf9d8b713754fd4c6de1a47cb /download
parent	81e5620540a43bb9b15168f7c900d75ca6219710 (diff)