From f0cded5f53645099fcdb531216ea738c22e38263 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hallgren Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:38:38 +0000 Subject: Next release will be GF 3.5, release notes moved to download/release-3.5.t2t. Some more work on the 3.5 release notes and download page. --- download/index-3.4.8.t2t | 161 --------------------------------------------- download/index-3.5.t2t | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ download/release-3.4.8.t2t | 55 ---------------- download/release-3.5.t2t | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 216 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 download/index-3.4.8.t2t create mode 100644 download/index-3.5.t2t delete mode 100644 download/release-3.4.8.t2t create mode 100644 download/release-3.5.t2t diff --git a/download/index-3.4.8.t2t b/download/index-3.4.8.t2t deleted file mode 100644 index ab22aa661..000000000 --- a/download/index-3.4.8.t2t +++ /dev/null @@ -1,161 +0,0 @@ -Grammatical Framework Download and Installation - - -%!style:../css/style.css -%!postproc(html): -%!postproc(html): <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width"><TITLE> -%!postproc(html): <TD><B> <TH> -%!postproc(html): </B></TD> </TH> -%!postproc(html): <H1> <H1><a href="../"><IMG src="../doc/Logos/gf0.png"></a> - -**GF 3.4.8** has not been released yet - -What's new? See the [Release notes release-3.4.8.html]. - - -== Binary packages == - -| **Platform** | **Download** | **How to install** -| MacOS X | [gf-3.4.8-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz gf-3.4.8-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz] | ``sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.4.8-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz`` -%| Fedora (32-bit) | [Fedora RPMs /~hallgren/tmp/Fedora/] | ``sudo rpm -i ...`` -| Ubuntu (32-bit) | [gf_3.4.8-1_i386.deb gf_3.4.8-1_i386.deb] | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.4.8-1_i386.deb`` -| Ubuntu (64-bit) | [gf_3.4.8-1_amd64.deb gf_3.4.8-1_amd64.deb] | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.4.8-1_amd64.deb`` -| Windows | [gf-3.4.8-bin-windows.zip gf-3.4.8-bin-windows.zip] | -%| ... | ... | ... - -%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. - -The ``.deb`` packages work on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04. - -%The ``.pkg`` package works on MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). -The MacOS tar package works on 10.6 (Leopard), 10.7 (Lion) -and 10.8 (Mountain Lion). - -The MacOS 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-3.4.8/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 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 notes 2&3 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-3.4.8.tar.gz`` gf-3.4.8.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`` 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 libghc6-terminfo-dev`` -- On Fedora: ``sudo yum install ghc-terminfo-devel`` - - -**Note 2**. -We recommend using GHC 7.6 (which is part of the Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0) -or GHC 7.4 (which is part of the Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0). -Older versions of GHC (6.12 and 7.0) still works for the most part. -(For example, there is a issue with error reporting in ``gf -server`` -when compiled with GHC 7.0.) -%GF does **not** compile with the most recent versions of Alex (>=3.0). - -**Note 3**. -[The Haskell Platform for Mac OS X http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html] -page states that 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 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 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 3.4 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-3.5.t2t b/download/index-3.5.t2t new file mode 100644 index 000000000..10da407bc --- /dev/null +++ b/download/index-3.5.t2t @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +Grammatical Framework Download and Installation + + +%!style:../css/style.css +%!postproc(html): </HEAD> <STYLE>body { color: #333; } li>code,p>code,pre { color: #730; }</STYLE></HEAD> +%!postproc(html): <TITLE> <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width"><TITLE> +%!postproc(html): <TD><B> <TH> +%!postproc(html): </B></TD> </TH> +%!postproc(html): <H1> <H1><a href="../"><IMG src="../doc/Logos/gf0.png"></a> + +**GF 3.5** has not been released yet + +What's new? See the [Release notes release-3.5.html]. + + +== Binary packages == + +| **Platform** | **Download** | **How to install** +| MacOS X | [gf-3.5-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz gf-3.5-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz] | ``sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.5-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz`` +%| Fedora (32-bit) | [Fedora RPMs /~hallgren/tmp/Fedora/] | ``sudo rpm -i ...`` +| Ubuntu (32-bit) | [gf_3.5-1_i386.deb gf_3.5-1_i386.deb] | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.5-1_i386.deb`` +| Ubuntu (64-bit) | [gf_3.5-1_amd64.deb gf_3.5-1_amd64.deb] | ``sudo dpkg -i gf_3.5-1_amd64.deb`` +| Windows | [gf-3.5-bin-windows.zip gf-3.5-bin-windows.zip] | +%| ... | ... | ... + +%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. + +The ``.deb`` packages work on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04. + +%The ``.pkg`` package works on MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). +The MacOS tar package works on 10.6 (Leopard), 10.7 (Lion) +and 10.8 (Mountain Lion). + +The MacOS 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-3.5/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 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 notes 2&3 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-3.5.tar.gz`` gf-3.5.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`` 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 7.6 (which is part of the Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0) +or GHC 7.4 (which is part of the Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0). +Older versions of GHC (6.12 and 7.0) still work for the most part. +(For example, there is a issue with error reporting in ``gf -server`` +when compiled with GHC 7.0.) +%GF does **not** compile with the most recent versions of Alex (>=3.0). + +**Note 3**. +[The Haskell Platform for Mac OS X http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html] +page states that 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 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 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 3.4 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/release-3.4.8.t2t b/download/release-3.4.8.t2t deleted file mode 100644 index 96bbb5539..000000000 --- a/download/release-3.4.8.t2t +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ -GF Version 3.4.8 Release Notes -August 2013 - -%!style:../css/style.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== - -===GF compiler and run-time library=== - -- The Haskell source code for GF now compiles with GHC 7.6 and hence the - the latest [Haskell Platform http://www.haskell.org/platform/] (2013.2.0.0). - Compatibility with GHC 7.4 is also maintained. -- A bug in the partial evaluator that caused problems with pattern macros has - been fixed. -- The new runtime in C is now stable enough to be used although there -are still features from the Haskell runtime which are not ported yet. -The new runtime provides the following new features: - - state of the art statistical parser for GF (PMCFG) - - the parser is usable in a robust mode, i.e. even if the - sentence is not in the scope of the grammar it is still possible - to get a list of parsable chunks - - the linearizer is also more robust than the one in Haskell since - it can linearize the partial trees returned from the robust parser - - the exhaustive generation for GF abstract trees generates the trees - in decreasing probability order (the order in Haskell is unspecified). - - we have started using just-in-time compilation to native code in - the exhaustive generator. The goal is to reach the state where - GF will provide state of the art theorem prover. -[/src/runtime/c/ ../src/runtime/c/] -- There is a binding from Python to the C runtime in [/src/runtime/python/ ../src/runtime/python/]. -- A volunteer to complete the binding from Java is highly wanted [/src/runtime/java/ ../src/runtime/java/]. - -===Resource Grammar Library=== - -- New languages in the Resource Grammar Library: Greek, Maltese - (see the [updated synopsis ../lib/doc/synopsis.html]). -%- Improvements for other languages, e.g. [...] -- Updated web-based RGL browser ([/lib/doc/browse/ ../lib/doc/browse/]). -- [...] - - -===GF Cloud services=== - -- Support for [cross-site HTTP requests https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/Access_control_CORS]... -- [...] - --------------------- - -[www.grammaticalframework.org http://www.grammaticalframework.org] diff --git a/download/release-3.5.t2t b/download/release-3.5.t2t new file mode 100644 index 000000000..31dd297de --- /dev/null +++ b/download/release-3.5.t2t @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +GF 3.5 Release Notes +August 2013 + +%!style:../css/style.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== + +Over 400 changes have been pushed to the source repository since the release +of GF 3.4. + + +===GF compiler and run-time library=== + +- The Haskell source code for GF now compiles with GHC 7.6 and hence the + the latest [Haskell Platform http://www.haskell.org/platform/] (2013.2.0.0). + Compatibility with GHC 7.4 is also maintained. +- ``gf -s/-q`` now silences ``no linearization of ...`` warnings. +- Faster regular expression pattern matching in the grammar compiler. +- Two bugs in the partial evaluator that caused problems with pattern macros + and variants have been fixed. +- A portability problem with PGF files has been fixed. It could cause problems + when PGF files were produced on a 32-bit system and used on a 64-bit system. +- The new runtime in C (in [/src/runtime/c/ ../src/runtime/c/]) + is now stable enough to be used although there + are still features from the Haskell runtime which are not ported yet. + The new runtime provides the following new features: + - state of the art statistical parser for GF (PMCFG) + - the parser is usable in a robust mode, i.e. even if the + sentence is not in the scope of the grammar it is still possible + to get a list of parsable chunks + - the linearizer is also more robust than the one in Haskell since + it can linearize the partial trees returned from the robust parser + - the exhaustive generation for GF abstract trees generates the trees + in decreasing probability order (the order in Haskell is unspecified). + - we have started using just-in-time compilation to native code in + the exhaustive generator. The goal is to reach the state where + GF will provide state of the art theorem prover. +- There is a binding from Python to the C runtime in [/src/runtime/python/ ../src/runtime/python/]. +- A volunteer to complete the binding from Java is highly wanted, + [/src/runtime/java/ ../src/runtime/java/]. + + +===Resource Grammar Library=== + +- New languages in the Resource Grammar Library: Greek, Maltese + (see the [updated synopsis ../lib/doc/synopsis.html]). +- Various improvements for several other languages, e.g. [...] +- Updated web-based RGL browser ([/lib/doc/browse/ ../lib/doc/browse/]). +- [...] + + +===GF Cloud services=== + +- Word alignment diagrams can now be restricted to a subset + of the languages supported by the grammar. +- Minibar: you can now click on a linearization to obtain a table with all + variants and forms +- Support for [cross-site HTTP requests https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/Access_control_CORS]... +- A UTF-8 decoding problem in ``gf -server`` has been fixed. + It was caused by a backward incompatible change in + [``network-2.4.1.1`` https://github.com/haskell/network/commit/f2168b1f8978b4ad9c504e545755f0795ac869ce]. +- Various other small improvements and bug fixes. +- [...] + +-------------------- + +[www.grammaticalframework.org http://www.grammaticalframework.org] -- cgit v1.2.3