The wide coverage demo apps now shows a "please wait" message while the grammar
is loading, and a red error message if the grammar is not found on the server.
The Simple Translation Tool also show red error messages if the grammar is not
found.
The configuration script takes significantly longer to run than the compilation
of all the C code, which is a hint that is in need of a major simplification.
PGF exports the public, stable API.
PGF.Internal exports additional things needed in the GF compiler & shell,
including the nonstardard version of Data.Binary.
From the documentation: the throwIO variant should be used in preference to
throw to raise an exception within the IO monad because it guarantees ordering
with respect to other IO operations, whereas throw does not.
Also removed some unused imports.
(table { p_i => t_i } ! x).l ==> table { p_i => t_i.l } ! x
This was used in the old partial evaluator and can significantly reduce term
sizes in some cases.
Eta expansion is applied between partial evaluation and PMCFG generation.
The buggy version generated type incorrect terms, but PMCFG generation
apparently worked anyway.
Also improve behaviour for languages that are missing in Phrasebook (Chinese).
Also update the initial set of languages in the menus to match Translate11.pgf.
1. Like pgf-translate, it now shows one result at a time, press Enter to get
more results.
2. You can load a new grammar with the command 'i <path-to-pgf>'
This means that the new translation is available instantly when switching
target languages. It can also reduce space leaks problems in the server
somewhat by avoiding repeated parsing of the source text.
+ Programs compiled with ghc<7.8 have a default built-in 8M stack size limit.
With ghc>7.0 this built-in default can be changed, so it is now 64M, allowing
GF to work with larger grammars without manually increasing the stack size.
(But if GF is compiled with ghc 6.12, the built-in default is still 8M.)
+ Enable ghc>=7.8 support for compiling modules in parallel, to speed up the
compilation of GF.
For example, you can now reorder paragraphs by cut & paste, without causing
anything to be sent to the server for re-translation.
Also some color & layout tweaks.
Also,
+ Get up to 10 (instead of 5) alternative robust translations.
+ Remove duplicates from list of alternative robust translations
+ Add GF Cloud logo to the simple translator page
Caching parse results uses a lot of memory, even if they expire after
2 minutes, so it won't scale up to many simultaneous users.
But some excessive memory use seems to be caused by space leaks in
(the Haskell binding to) the C run-time system, and these should be fixed.
For example, flushing the PGF cache does not release the memory allocated
by the C run-time system when loading a PGF file.
Most PGF web API commands that produce linearizations now accept an
unlexer parameter. Possible values are "text", "code" and "mixed".
The web service now include Date and Last-Modified headers in the HTTP,
responses. This means that browsers can treat responses as static content and
cache them, so it becomes less critical to cache parse results in the server.
Also did some cleanup in PGFService.hs, e.g. removed a couple of functions
that can now be imported from PGF.Lexing instead.
The old type was [String] -> String. This function was only used
in GF.Text.Lexing.stringOp, which now uses (unwords . bindTok) instead,
with no change in behaviour.
The capitalization of the first word was done in GF.Text.Lexing.stringOp,
but is now done in the functions unlexText and unlexMixed in PGF.Lexing.
These functions are only used in stringOp and in PGFService (where the change
is needed), so the subtle change in behaviour should not cause any bugs.
Only change the first word to lowercase if the original input is not found in
the grammar's morphology. This allows parsing of sentenses starting with "I" in
English, nouns in German and proper names in other languages, but it can make
the wrong choice for multi-words.
The PGF web API commands parse, translate, translategroup, c-parse and
c-translate now support a lexer parameter. Possible values are "text",
"code" and "mixed".
This is used in the Wide Coverage Demo App to save one server roundtrip.
+ The current type checker for concrete syntax is in
GF.Compile.TypeCheck.RConcrete, but GF.Compile.TypeCheck.Concrete was
still imported in GFI.
+ Fixed a bug that allowed Ints n as a subtype of Ints m, regardless of
m and n. It now requires n<=m. Note: the type checker still allows Int
as a subtype of Ints m, regardless of m.
+ Fixed a potential efficiency problem with large record types, by reducing
the number of recursive calls from |R|*|S| to |R| when checking if R<=S.
+ Fixed a misleading comment: "alpha g t u" checks that u is a subtype of t,
the other way around. Similarly, "checkIfEqLType gr g t u trm" checks that
u is a subtype of t, not the other way around, and not that t is equal to u.
The layout now resembles a certain other online translation service.
The translation is started automatically after text is entered, no need to
press the Translate button.
This bug was introduced sometime between 2013-08-21 and 2013-11-01 and caused
the function convertTerm in GF.Compile.GeneratePMCFG to encounter a EPatt where
it expected Strs. I fixed it by applying the function getPatts (from the old
partial evaluator) to the pattern.
+ Adapt language selection menus to the languages supported by the grammar.
+ Add translation quality colors to the links to alternative translations.
+ Also added more country codes in langcode.js (needed for speech synthesis
voice selection).
hallgren