From ee9fcef7876fadeb356f106236278f11c0780389 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hallgren Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:13:06 +0000 Subject: Final changes for the GF 3.8 release News item on the home page Put the download page and release notes in place. Add an entry in debian/changelog. Update the version number in gf.cabal. --- debian/changelog | 6 ++ download/index-3.7.1.t2t | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ download/index-next.t2t | 178 ------------------------------------------- download/index.t2t | 55 ++++++-------- download/release-3.8.t2t | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ download/release-next.t2t | 106 -------------------------- gf.cabal | 2 +- index.html | 2 + 8 files changed, 325 insertions(+), 317 deletions(-) create mode 100644 download/index-3.7.1.t2t delete mode 100644 download/index-next.t2t create mode 100644 download/release-3.8.t2t delete mode 100644 download/release-next.t2t diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 2cd8a64cb..476d09d0b 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +gf (3.8-1) precise trusty vivid; urgency=low + + * GF 3.8 + + -- Thomas Hallgren Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:00:00 +0200 + gf (3.7.1-1) precise trusty vivid; urgency=low * GF 3.7.1 diff --git a/download/index-3.7.1.t2t b/download/index-3.7.1.t2t new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0bbba65a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/download/index-3.7.1.t2t @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@ +Grammatical Framework Download and Installation + + +%!style:../css/notes.css +%!postproc(html): <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width"><TITLE> +%!postproc(html): <H1> <H1><a href="../"><IMG src="../doc/Logos/gf0.png"></a> +%!postproc(html): <TD><I> <TD><small> +%!postproc(html): </I></TD> </small></TD> + +**GF 3.7.1** was released on 2 October 2015. + +What's new? See the [Release notes release-3.7.1.html]. + + +== Binary packages == + +|| Platform | Download | Features | How to install +| Mac OS X | [gf-3.7.1.pkg gf-3.7.1.pkg] | //GF+S+C// | Double-click on the package icon (*) +| Mac OS X | [gf-3.7.1-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz gf-3.7.1-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.7.1-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz`` +%| Fedora (32-bit) | [Fedora RPMs /~hallgren/tmp/Fedora/] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo rpm -i ...`` +| Ubuntu (32-bit) | [gf_3.7.1-1_i386.deb gf_3.7.1-1_i386.deb] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.7.1-1_i386.deb`` +| Ubuntu (64-bit) | [gf_3.7.1-1_amd64.deb gf_3.7.1-1_amd64.deb] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.7.1-1_amd64.deb`` +| Windows | [gf-3.7.1-bin-windows.zip gf-3.7.1-bin-windows.zip] | //GF+S// | ``unzip gf-3.7.1-bin-windows.zip`` +%| MINGW | [gf-3.7.1-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz gf-3.7.1-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz] | //GF+S+C// | ``tar -C / gf-3.7.1-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz`` +%| ... | ... | ... | ... + +Features: GF = GF shell and grammar compiler and the Resource Grammar Library, +S = ``gf -server`` mode, C = C run-time system, P = Python binding to the C run-time system + +%More binary packages might be added later. + +===Notes=== + +The Windows package is installed by just unpacking it anywhere. +%It finds the libraries relative to the ``.exe`` file. +You will probably need to set the ``PATH`` and ``GF_LIB_PATH`` environment +variables, see Inari's notes on +[Installing GF on Windows http://www.grammaticalframework.org/~inari/gf-windows.html#toc3]. + +%The new experimental MINGW package is for use in the +%[MINGW http://www.mingw.org] environment in Windows. Unpack it in the MSYS shell +%(which is started with ``C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat``). +%It should work out of the box without any additional settings. + +The ``.deb`` packages work on Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 and 15.04. + +The packages for Mac OS X should work on at least 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 (Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan). + +(*) **Note** that for compatibility with OS X 10.11, +``gf-3.7.1.pkg`` will install the ``gf`` executable in ``/usr/local/bin`` +instead of ``/usr/bin``, so make sure ``/usr/local/bin`` is in your ``$PATH``. +Also, if you still have an older version of GF installed in ``/usr/bin``, +remove it and/or make sure ``/usr/local/bin`` comes before ``/usr/bin`` +in your ``$PATH`` so you don't accidentally run the old version. + +The Mac OS and Linux ``.tar.gz`` packages are designed to be installed in +``/usr/local``. +You can install them in other locations, but then you need to set the +``GF_LIB_PATH`` environment variable: + +``` + export GF_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/share/gf-3.7.1/lib +``` + +where ``/usr/local`` should be replaced with the path to the location where you +unpacked the package. + + +==Installing the latest release from source== + +[GF is on Hackage http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gf], so under normal +circumstances the prodedure is fairly simple: + ++ Install the [Haskell Platform http://hackage.haskell.org/platform] + version 2013.2.0.0 or 2012.4.0.0 (see note 2 below) ++ ``cabal update`` ++ On Linux: install some C libraries from your Linux distribution + (see note 1 below) ++ ``cabal install gf`` + + +You can also download the full source package from here: +[``gf-3.7.1.tar.gz`` gf-3.7.1.tar.gz]. + +=== Notes === + +The above steps installs GF for a single user. +% and does not require root privileges. +The executables are put in ``$HOME/.cabal/bin`` +(or, with recent versions of the Haskell platform on Mac OS X, +in ``$HOME/Library/Haskell/bin``), so it is a good +idea to put a line in your ``.bash_profile`` or ``.profile`` +to add that directory to you path: + +``` + PATH=$HOME/.cabal/bin:$PATH +``` +or +``` + PATH=$HOME/Library/Haskell/bin:$PATH +``` + +**Note 1**. +GF uses [``haskeline`` http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskeline], which +on Linux depends on some non-Haskell libraries that +won't be installed automatically by cabal, and therefore need to be installed +manually. Here is one way to do this: + +- On Ubuntu: ``sudo apt-get install libghc-haskeline-dev`` +- On Fedora: ``sudo yum install ghc-haskeline-devel`` + + +**Note 2**. +We recommend using GHC 7.8 (which is part of the Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0) +or GHC 7.6 (which is part of the Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0). +Using GHC 7.10.2 or GHC 7.4 (Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0) should work too. +%Compilation with GHC 6.12 is no longer supported, because of multiple package +%version dependency problems. + +%With GHC 70.10.1 we +%have seen cases where GF stops with the message ``gf: <<loop>>`` when running +%with multiple threads (``-j +RTS -N -RTS``), so it's probably better to stick +%with GHC 7.8, at least until GHC 7.10.2 is out. + +%**Note 3**. +%[The Haskell Platform for Mac OS X http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html] +%page states that on OS X 10.6 you need Xcode 3.2 or later, but in fact it appears you need +%Xcode 3.2.3 or later. If you have Xcode 3.2.2, you can get an error from the +%linker: ``ld: unknown option: -no_pie``. + +=== Known problems === + +There seems to be a bug in some versions of Cabal that can cause + +``` + Distribution/Simple/PackageIndex.hs:124:8-13: Assertion failed +``` + +if the same version of GF is +already installed. If you encounter this, you can use ``ghc-pkg unregister gf`` +to remove the installed version of GF and ``ghc-pkg list gf`` to verify that +it is gone. + +==Installing from the latest developer source code== + +The first time: +%, assuming you already have the Haskell Platform and darcs + +``` + darcs get --lazy http://www.grammaticalframework.org/ GF + cd GF + cabal install +``` + +Subsequently: + +``` + cd GF + darcs pull -a + cabal install +``` + +Alternatively, you can get the code from the +[GF GitHub https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/GF/] mirror, which is +updated nightly. + +The above notes for installing from source apply also in these cases. +For more info on working with the GF source code, see the +[GF Developers Guide ../doc/gf-developers.html]. + +==Older releases== + +- [GF 3.7 index-3.7.html] (June 2015) +- [GF 3.6 index-3.6.html] (June 2014) +- [GF 3.5 index-3.5.html] (August 2013) +- [GF 3.4 index-3.4.html] (January 2013). +- [GF 3.3.3 index-3.3.3.html] (March 2012). +- [GF 3.3 index-3.3.html] (October 2011). +- [GF 3.2.9 index-3.2.9.html] source-only snapshot (September 2011). +- [GF 3.2 index-3.2.html] (December 2010). +- [GF 3.1.6 index-3.1.6.html] (April 2010). +- [GF 3.1 old-index.html] (December 2009). + + +-------------------- + +[www.grammaticalframework.org http://www.grammaticalframework.org] diff --git a/download/index-next.t2t b/download/index-next.t2t deleted file mode 100644 index 7fbf0a39f..000000000 --- a/download/index-next.t2t +++ /dev/null @@ -1,178 +0,0 @@ -Grammatical Framework Download and Installation - - -%!style:../css/notes.css -%!postproc(html): <TITLE> <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width"><TITLE> -%!postproc(html): <H1> <H1><a href="../"><IMG src="../doc/Logos/gf0.png"></a> -%!postproc(html): <TD><I> <TD><small> -%!postproc(html): </I></TD> </small></TD> - -**GF 3.8** will be released in June 2016. - -What's new? See the [Release notes release-3.8.html]. - - -== Binary packages == - -|| Platform | Download | Features | How to install -| Mac OS X | [gf-3.8.pkg gf-3.8.pkg] | //GF+S+C+P// | Double-click on the package icon (*) -| Mac OS X | [gf-3.8-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz gf-3.8-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.8-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz`` -%| Fedora (32-bit) | [Fedora RPMs /~hallgren/tmp/Fedora/] | //GF+S+C+J+P// | ``sudo rpm -i ...`` -| Ubuntu (32-bit) | [gf_3.8-1_i386.deb gf_3.8-1_i386.deb] | //GF+S+C+J+P// | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.8-1_i386.deb`` -| Ubuntu (64-bit) | [gf_3.8-1_amd64.deb gf_3.8-1_amd64.deb] | //GF+S+C+J+P// | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.8-1_amd64.deb`` -| Windows | [gf-3.8-bin-windows.zip gf-3.8-bin-windows.zip] | //GF+S// | ``unzip gf-3.8-bin-windows.zip`` -%| MINGW | [gf-3.8-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz gf-3.8-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz] | //GF+S+C// | ``tar -C / gf-3.8-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz`` -%| ... | ... | ... | ... - -Features: GF = GF shell and grammar compiler and the Resource Grammar Library, -S = ``gf -server`` mode, -C = C run-time system, -J/P = Java/Python binding to the C run-time system - -%More binary packages might be added later. - -===Notes=== - -The Windows package is installed by just unpacking it anywhere. -%It finds the libraries relative to the ``.exe`` file. -You will probably need to set the ``PATH`` and ``GF_LIB_PATH`` environment -variables, see Inari's notes on -[Installing GF on Windows http://www.grammaticalframework.org/~inari/gf-windows.html#toc3]. - -%The new experimental MINGW package is for use in the -%[MINGW http://www.mingw.org] environment in Windows. Unpack it in the MSYS shell -%(which is started with ``C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat``). -%It should work out of the box without any additional settings. - -The ``.deb`` packages should work on Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04 and similar -Linux distributions. - -The packages for Mac OS X should work on at least 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 (Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan). - -(*) **Note** that for compatibility with OS X 10.11, -``gf-3.8.pkg`` will install the ``gf`` executable in ``/usr/local/bin`` -instead of ``/usr/bin``, so make sure ``/usr/local/bin`` is in your ``$PATH``. -Also, if you still have an older version of GF installed in ``/usr/bin``, -remove it and/or make sure ``/usr/local/bin`` comes before ``/usr/bin`` -in your ``$PATH`` so you don't accidentally run the old version. - -The Mac OS and Linux ``.tar.gz`` packages are designed to be installed in -``/usr/local``. -You can install them in other locations, but then you need to set the -``GF_LIB_PATH`` environment variable: - -``` - export GF_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/share/gf-3.8/lib -``` - -where ``/usr/local`` should be replaced with the path to the location where you -unpacked the package. - - -==Installing the latest release from source== - -[GF is on Hackage http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gf], so under normal -circumstances the prodedure is fairly simple: - -+ Install a recent version of the - [Haskell Platform http://hackage.haskell.org/platform], - e.g. version 7.10.3 (see note 2 below) -+ ``cabal update`` -+ On Linux: install some C libraries from your Linux distribution - (see note 1 below) -+ ``cabal install gf`` - - -You can also download the full source package from here: -[``gf-3.8.tar.gz`` gf-3.8.tar.gz]. - -=== Notes === - -The above steps installs GF for a single user. -% and does not require root privileges. -The executables are put in ``$HOME/.cabal/bin`` -(or, with recent versions of the Haskell platform on Mac OS X, -in ``$HOME/Library/Haskell/bin``), so it is a good -idea to put a line in your ``.bash_profile`` or ``.profile`` -to add that directory to you path: - -``` - PATH=$HOME/.cabal/bin:$PATH -``` -or -``` - PATH=$HOME/Library/Haskell/bin:$PATH -``` - -**Note 1**. -GF uses [``haskeline`` http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskeline], which -on Linux depends on some non-Haskell libraries that -won't be installed automatically by cabal, and therefore need to be installed -manually. Here is one way to do this: - -- On Ubuntu: ``sudo apt-get install libghc-haskeline-dev`` -- On Fedora: ``sudo yum install ghc-haskeline-devel`` - - -**Note 2**. -The GF source code has been updated to compile with GHC 8.0.1. Using older -versions of GHC (7.10.3, 7.10.2, 7.8, 7.6) should work too. - -=== Known problems === - -There seems to be a bug in some versions of Cabal that can cause - -``` - Distribution/Simple/PackageIndex.hs:124:8-13: Assertion failed -``` - -if the same version of GF is -already installed. If you encounter this, you can use ``ghc-pkg unregister gf`` -to remove the installed version of GF and ``ghc-pkg list gf`` to verify that -it is gone. - -==Installing from the latest developer source code== - -The first time: -%, assuming you already have the Haskell Platform and darcs - -``` - darcs get --lazy http://www.grammaticalframework.org/ GF - cd GF - cabal install -``` - -Subsequently: - -``` - cd GF - darcs pull -a - cabal install -``` - -Alternatively, you can get the code from the -[GF GitHub https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/GF/] mirror, which is -updated nightly. - -The above notes for installing from source apply also in these cases. -For more info on working with the GF source code, see the -[GF Developers Guide ../doc/gf-developers.html]. - -==Older releases== - -- [GF 3.7.1 index-3.7.1.html] (October 2015) -- [GF 3.7 index-3.7.html] (June 2015) -- [GF 3.6 index-3.6.html] (June 2014) -- [GF 3.5 index-3.5.html] (August 2013) -- [GF 3.4 index-3.4.html] (January 2013). -- [GF 3.3.3 index-3.3.3.html] (March 2012). -- [GF 3.3 index-3.3.html] (October 2011). -- [GF 3.2.9 index-3.2.9.html] source-only snapshot (September 2011). -- [GF 3.2 index-3.2.html] (December 2010). -- [GF 3.1.6 index-3.1.6.html] (April 2010). -- [GF 3.1 old-index.html] (December 2009). - - --------------------- - -[www.grammaticalframework.org http://www.grammaticalframework.org] diff --git a/download/index.t2t b/download/index.t2t index 0bbba65a9..1222cdff1 100644 --- a/download/index.t2t +++ b/download/index.t2t @@ -7,25 +7,27 @@ Grammatical Framework Download and Installation %!postproc(html): <TD><I> <TD><small> %!postproc(html): </I></TD> </small></TD> -**GF 3.7.1** was released on 2 October 2015. +**GF 3.8** was released on 22 June 2016. -What's new? See the [Release notes release-3.7.1.html]. +What's new? See the [Release notes release-3.8.html]. == Binary packages == || Platform | Download | Features | How to install -| Mac OS X | [gf-3.7.1.pkg gf-3.7.1.pkg] | //GF+S+C// | Double-click on the package icon (*) -| Mac OS X | [gf-3.7.1-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz gf-3.7.1-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.7.1-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz`` -%| Fedora (32-bit) | [Fedora RPMs /~hallgren/tmp/Fedora/] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo rpm -i ...`` -| Ubuntu (32-bit) | [gf_3.7.1-1_i386.deb gf_3.7.1-1_i386.deb] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.7.1-1_i386.deb`` -| Ubuntu (64-bit) | [gf_3.7.1-1_amd64.deb gf_3.7.1-1_amd64.deb] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.7.1-1_amd64.deb`` -| Windows | [gf-3.7.1-bin-windows.zip gf-3.7.1-bin-windows.zip] | //GF+S// | ``unzip gf-3.7.1-bin-windows.zip`` -%| MINGW | [gf-3.7.1-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz gf-3.7.1-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz] | //GF+S+C// | ``tar -C / gf-3.7.1-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz`` +| Mac OS X | [gf-3.8.pkg gf-3.8.pkg] | //GF+S+C+P// | Double-click on the package icon (*) +| Mac OS X | [gf-3.8-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz gf-3.8-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz] | //GF+S+C+P// | ``sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.8-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz`` +%| Fedora (32-bit) | [Fedora RPMs /~hallgren/tmp/Fedora/] | //GF+S+C+J+P// | ``sudo rpm -i ...`` +| Ubuntu (32-bit) | [gf_3.8-1_i386.deb gf_3.8-1_i386.deb] | //GF+S+C+J+P// | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.8-1_i386.deb`` +| Ubuntu (64-bit) | [gf_3.8-1_amd64.deb gf_3.8-1_amd64.deb] | //GF+S+C+J+P// | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.8-1_amd64.deb`` +| Windows | [gf-3.8-bin-windows.zip gf-3.8-bin-windows.zip] | //GF+S// | ``unzip gf-3.8-bin-windows.zip`` +%| MINGW | [gf-3.8-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz gf-3.8-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz] | //GF+S+C// | ``tar -C / gf-3.8-bin-i686-MINGW32_NT-6.1.tar.gz`` %| ... | ... | ... | ... Features: GF = GF shell and grammar compiler and the Resource Grammar Library, -S = ``gf -server`` mode, C = C run-time system, P = Python binding to the C run-time system +S = ``gf -server`` mode, +C = C run-time system, +J/P = Java/Python binding to the C run-time system %More binary packages might be added later. @@ -42,12 +44,13 @@ variables, see Inari's notes on %(which is started with ``C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat``). %It should work out of the box without any additional settings. -The ``.deb`` packages work on Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 and 15.04. +The ``.deb`` packages should work on Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04 and similar +Linux distributions. The packages for Mac OS X should work on at least 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 (Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan). (*) **Note** that for compatibility with OS X 10.11, -``gf-3.7.1.pkg`` will install the ``gf`` executable in ``/usr/local/bin`` +``gf-3.8.pkg`` will install the ``gf`` executable in ``/usr/local/bin`` instead of ``/usr/bin``, so make sure ``/usr/local/bin`` is in your ``$PATH``. Also, if you still have an older version of GF installed in ``/usr/bin``, remove it and/or make sure ``/usr/local/bin`` comes before ``/usr/bin`` @@ -59,7 +62,7 @@ You can install them in other locations, but then you need to set the ``GF_LIB_PATH`` environment variable: ``` - export GF_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/share/gf-3.7.1/lib + export GF_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/share/gf-3.8/lib ``` where ``/usr/local`` should be replaced with the path to the location where you @@ -71,8 +74,9 @@ unpacked the package. [GF is on Hackage http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gf], so under normal circumstances the prodedure is fairly simple: -+ Install the [Haskell Platform http://hackage.haskell.org/platform] - version 2013.2.0.0 or 2012.4.0.0 (see note 2 below) ++ Install a recent version of the + [Haskell Platform http://hackage.haskell.org/platform], + e.g. version 7.10.3 (see note 2 below) + ``cabal update`` + On Linux: install some C libraries from your Linux distribution (see note 1 below) @@ -80,7 +84,7 @@ circumstances the prodedure is fairly simple: You can also download the full source package from here: -[``gf-3.7.1.tar.gz`` gf-3.7.1.tar.gz]. +[``gf-3.8.tar.gz`` gf-3.8.tar.gz]. === Notes === @@ -111,22 +115,8 @@ manually. Here is one way to do this: **Note 2**. -We recommend using GHC 7.8 (which is part of the Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0) -or GHC 7.6 (which is part of the Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0). -Using GHC 7.10.2 or GHC 7.4 (Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0) should work too. -%Compilation with GHC 6.12 is no longer supported, because of multiple package -%version dependency problems. - -%With GHC 70.10.1 we -%have seen cases where GF stops with the message ``gf: <<loop>>`` when running -%with multiple threads (``-j +RTS -N -RTS``), so it's probably better to stick -%with GHC 7.8, at least until GHC 7.10.2 is out. - -%**Note 3**. -%[The Haskell Platform for Mac OS X http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html] -%page states that on OS X 10.6 you need Xcode 3.2 or later, but in fact it appears you need -%Xcode 3.2.3 or later. If you have Xcode 3.2.2, you can get an error from the -%linker: ``ld: unknown option: -no_pie``. +The GF source code has been updated to compile with GHC 8.0.1. Using older +versions of GHC (7.10.3, 7.10.2, 7.8, 7.6) should work too. === Known problems === @@ -170,6 +160,7 @@ For more info on working with the GF source code, see the ==Older releases== +- [GF 3.7.1 index-3.7.1.html] (October 2015) - [GF 3.7 index-3.7.html] (June 2015) - [GF 3.6 index-3.6.html] (June 2014) - [GF 3.5 index-3.5.html] (August 2013) diff --git a/download/release-3.8.t2t b/download/release-3.8.t2t new file mode 100644 index 000000000..669f1235b --- /dev/null +++ b/download/release-3.8.t2t @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +GF 3.8 Release Notes +June 2016 + +%!style:../css/notes.css +%!postproc(html): <TITLE> <meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width"> <TITLE> +%!postproc(html): <H1> <H1><a href="../"><IMG src="../doc/Logos/gf0.png"></a> + +==Installation== + +See the [download page http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download/index.html]. + + +==What's new== + +Roughly 400 changes have been pushed to the source repository since +[the release of GF 3.7.1 release-3.7.1.html] in October 2015. + + +===GF compiler and run-time library=== + + +====New features and notable changes==== + +- GF shell: ``vd`` can now output + [universal dependency http://universaldependencies.org/] diagrams + in various formats, see ``help vd``. +- The C runtime now includes an experimental library for managing + and querying ontologies built on top of the abstract syntax of + a grammar. Since the ontology is based on an abstract syntax, + it is language independent by design. For now the library is + only used in the GF Offline Translator. The library uses + the B-tree backend of [SQLite https://www.sqlite.org/] + which makes it scalable even for non-trivial ontologies. + + +====Other changes and bug fixes==== + +- GF shell: a simple post-processing step has been added in the ``cc`` command + to try compute ``pre{...}`` tokens instead of leaving them uninterpreted. +- GF shell: an argument parsing problem has been fixed in the ``cc`` command. + The problem was introduced before the release of GF 3.7.1 and prevented + commands like ``cc "last"`` and ``cc "last"++"year"`` from working, + but they should work again now. +- Python binding: with the OS X installer package (``gf-3.8.pkg``), + the Python binding should now work directly out of the package. + (The installer puts the modules under ``/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages``, + where the Python interpreter can find them.) +- Various improvements and bug fixes in the C run-time system and its bindings + to other languages. + + +====Changes of interest to compiler developers==== + +- The compiler source code has been updated for compatibility with GHC 8.0.1. + + +===Resource Grammar Library=== + +- New languages: + - Nynorsk by Stian Rødven Eide (fairly complete, supports API) + - Ancient Greek by Hans Leiß (partial, no API yet) + - Slovene by Krasimir Angelov (partial, no API yet, donated by [Digital Grammars http://www.digitalgrammars.com/]) + +- Various fixes for several languages. + - English and Scandinavian: relative clauses and slash questions have been modernized to + using preposition stranding by default. This also enables the use of //that// in English, + which solves a problem of choosing between //which// and //who// when animacy information + is not available. The previous defaults (//which//,//who//,//whom//, pied piping) are available + in ``Extra`` modules. + +- Numerous fixes in the translation dictionaries. + - two new wide-coverage languages: Estonian and Russian + - The abstract syntax of the translation dictionary is now annotated + with glosses, examples and sense IDs from WordNet. This gives us + a basis on how to choose the best translations for different languages. + - We have started splitting many of the lexical entries in the abstract + syntax of the dictionary into different entries for senses that + translate differently accross languages. + + +===Apps and Cloud services=== + +- GF Offline Translator (for Android) now includes a user interface similar + to the Phrasomatic. This lets the user explore the controlled + language fragment of the wide coverage grammar. Althought + the code is already there, the new release of the app + will be postponed to get some of its other features stable. +- GF Offline Translator (for Android) now offers glosses and examples for + most of its lexical items. This means that now it can be used as a more + explanatory dictionary. +- Minibar can now show universal dependency diagrams for grammars that + support it (e.g. the ResourceDemo grammar). +- PGF service: there is a new command ``deptree`` that can output + universal dependency diagrams for grammars that support it (there + has to be a label configuration file). +- Wide Coverage Translation Demo: + there is now a new button "Grammars..." which show a list where users can + select which application grammars to use for translation, in addition to + the wide coverage grammar. Application grammars can give higher quality + translations in the domain they cover. + You can change the order in which the selected grammars are tried + by dragging them up and down in the list. + +-------------------- + +[www.grammaticalframework.org http://www.grammaticalframework.org] diff --git a/download/release-next.t2t b/download/release-next.t2t deleted file mode 100644 index 669f1235b..000000000 --- a/download/release-next.t2t +++ /dev/null @@ -1,106 +0,0 @@ -GF 3.8 Release Notes -June 2016 - -%!style:../css/notes.css -%!postproc(html): <TITLE> <meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width"> <TITLE> -%!postproc(html): <H1> <H1><a href="../"><IMG src="../doc/Logos/gf0.png"></a> - -==Installation== - -See the [download page http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download/index.html]. - - -==What's new== - -Roughly 400 changes have been pushed to the source repository since -[the release of GF 3.7.1 release-3.7.1.html] in October 2015. - - -===GF compiler and run-time library=== - - -====New features and notable changes==== - -- GF shell: ``vd`` can now output - [universal dependency http://universaldependencies.org/] diagrams - in various formats, see ``help vd``. -- The C runtime now includes an experimental library for managing - and querying ontologies built on top of the abstract syntax of - a grammar. Since the ontology is based on an abstract syntax, - it is language independent by design. For now the library is - only used in the GF Offline Translator. The library uses - the B-tree backend of [SQLite https://www.sqlite.org/] - which makes it scalable even for non-trivial ontologies. - - -====Other changes and bug fixes==== - -- GF shell: a simple post-processing step has been added in the ``cc`` command - to try compute ``pre{...}`` tokens instead of leaving them uninterpreted. -- GF shell: an argument parsing problem has been fixed in the ``cc`` command. - The problem was introduced before the release of GF 3.7.1 and prevented - commands like ``cc "last"`` and ``cc "last"++"year"`` from working, - but they should work again now. -- Python binding: with the OS X installer package (``gf-3.8.pkg``), - the Python binding should now work directly out of the package. - (The installer puts the modules under ``/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages``, - where the Python interpreter can find them.) -- Various improvements and bug fixes in the C run-time system and its bindings - to other languages. - - -====Changes of interest to compiler developers==== - -- The compiler source code has been updated for compatibility with GHC 8.0.1. - - -===Resource Grammar Library=== - -- New languages: - - Nynorsk by Stian Rødven Eide (fairly complete, supports API) - - Ancient Greek by Hans Leiß (partial, no API yet) - - Slovene by Krasimir Angelov (partial, no API yet, donated by [Digital Grammars http://www.digitalgrammars.com/]) - -- Various fixes for several languages. - - English and Scandinavian: relative clauses and slash questions have been modernized to - using preposition stranding by default. This also enables the use of //that// in English, - which solves a problem of choosing between //which// and //who// when animacy information - is not available. The previous defaults (//which//,//who//,//whom//, pied piping) are available - in ``Extra`` modules. - -- Numerous fixes in the translation dictionaries. - - two new wide-coverage languages: Estonian and Russian - - The abstract syntax of the translation dictionary is now annotated - with glosses, examples and sense IDs from WordNet. This gives us - a basis on how to choose the best translations for different languages. - - We have started splitting many of the lexical entries in the abstract - syntax of the dictionary into different entries for senses that - translate differently accross languages. - - -===Apps and Cloud services=== - -- GF Offline Translator (for Android) now includes a user interface similar - to the Phrasomatic. This lets the user explore the controlled - language fragment of the wide coverage grammar. Althought - the code is already there, the new release of the app - will be postponed to get some of its other features stable. -- GF Offline Translator (for Android) now offers glosses and examples for - most of its lexical items. This means that now it can be used as a more - explanatory dictionary. -- Minibar can now show universal dependency diagrams for grammars that - support it (e.g. the ResourceDemo grammar). -- PGF service: there is a new command ``deptree`` that can output - universal dependency diagrams for grammars that support it (there - has to be a label configuration file). -- Wide Coverage Translation Demo: - there is now a new button "Grammars..." which show a list where users can - select which application grammars to use for translation, in addition to - the wide coverage grammar. Application grammars can give higher quality - translations in the domain they cover. - You can change the order in which the selected grammars are tried - by dragging them up and down in the list. - --------------------- - -[www.grammaticalframework.org http://www.grammaticalframework.org] diff --git a/gf.cabal b/gf.cabal index dc8f63549..5a79e052a 100644 --- a/gf.cabal +++ b/gf.cabal @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ name: gf -version: 3.7.1-darcs +version: 3.8 cabal-version: >= 1.10 build-type: Custom diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 233df1753..eb3080a34 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ document.write('<div style="float: right; margin-top: 3ex;"> <form onsubmit="re <div class=news2> <table class=news> +<tr><td>2016-06-22:<td><strong>GF 3.8 released!</strong> + <a href="download/release-3.8.html">Release notes</a>. <tr><td>2015-10-02:<td><strong>GF 3.7.1 released!</strong> <a href="download/release-3.7.1.html">Release notes</a>. <tr><td>2015-06-25:<td><strong>GF 3.7 released!</strong> -- cgit v1.2.3