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diff --git a/download/release-3.1.6.t2t b/download/release-3.1.6.t2t new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aec8bb650 --- /dev/null +++ b/download/release-3.1.6.t2t @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +GF Version 3.1.6 Release Notes +23 April 2010 + + +=Installation= + +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. + +To compile from source, GHC 6.12 is now required. But GHC is not needed +if the binary executables are used. + +Binaries (``.gfo`` and ``.pgf`` files) compiled with GF 3.1 are incompatible +with 3.1.6 and must either be removed; alternatively, the ``-src`` flag can be +used when compiling. + +Notice the new place to send bug reports (see GF's welcome message)! + + +=New features= + +Grammar language +- improved support for dependent types (see ``SUMO``, ``nqueens`` in ``examples``) + + +Shell commands and options (see ``help`` in GF for more information) +- ``eb``: example-based grammar file conversion + (see ``examples/animals/QuestionI.gf``) +- ``vd = visualize_dependency``: show dependency tree +- ``vp = visualize_parse``: show parse tree +- ``gr, gt, mq, tq``: use a seed tree with metavariables +- ``gr, p, tq``: use ``-probs=FILE`` to bias or rank generated trees +- ``gt`` now tries the different alternatives in the order in which they appear in the source code +- ``dg``: hide modules when printing dependency graph +- -output-format=lambda_prolog let us to use Lambda Prolog for exhaustive generation with dependent types + + +Libraries +- Urdu completed (Shafqat Virk) +- Turkish morphology + Zamberek's dictionary in GF (Server Cimen) + + +Examples +- SUMO +- phrasebook +- nqueens + + +Internal +- single PMCFG format for both linearization and parsing +- use of Haskeline for completion - more portable than Readline +- 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. + + + + + |
