+ The instructions have been modernized and simplified slightly and should now
work again. (I have not verified it on Windows.)
Using 'cabal' instead of 'runghc Setup.hs' avoids some problems.
+ Also, download/index.html has simpler installation instructions sufficient
for many users, so mention it in the main README file.
+ Also adjusted the main Makefile.
+ show a cloud icon next to the document name if it is stored in the cloud
+ in addition to the name of the current document, remember if it is stored in
the cloud, so that the right document is loaded next time you open the
translator.
Introduced the function
parallelCheck :: [Check a] -> Check [a]
that runs independent checks in parallel, potentially allowing faster grammar
compilation on multi-core computers, if you run gf with +RTS -N.
However, on my dual core laptop, this seems to slow down compilation somewhat
even though CPU utilization goes up as high as 170% at times.
(This is with GF compiled with GHC 7.0.4.)
In GF.Compile.CheckGrammar, use a new topological sorting function that
groups independent judgements, allowing them all to be checked before
continuing or reporting errors.
Reimplemented it with the new function accumulateError.
Also keeping the formatting of errors and warnings unchanged for now, to avoid
potentially causing problems in the GF Eclipse Plugin.
Using accumulated errors in the Check monad.
TODO: some errors are still not accumulated, but thanks to checkMapRecover
at least one error per judgement is reported.
In addition to warnings, the Check monad in GF.Infra.CheckM can now accumulate
errors. There are two new functions
checkAccumError: Message -> Check ()
accumulateError :: (a -> Check a) -> a -> Check a
The former (with the same type as checkWarn) is used to report an accumulated
(nonfatal) error. The latter converts fatal errors into accumulated errors.
Accumulated errors are reported as regular errors by runCheck.
Also, the Check monad type has been made abstract.
This turns error messages like
gf: too few bytes. Failed reading at byte position 1
gf: /some/path/somefile.gfo: too few bytes. Failed reading at byte position 1
but a better fix would be to ignore bad .gfo files and compile from source.
The problem is the way this decision is made in
GF.Compile.ReadFiles.selectFormat...
Also added feedback to source & target language menus to indicate which
languages are supported by the selected translation method. For Apertium, the
source language menu shows all possible source languages, and the target menu
shows the possible target languages for the chosen source language.
The Setup.hs script now queries darcs to create more detailed version info
to include in the startup message.
Note thought that with distributed version control systems like darcs,
the only way to uniquely identify a version is by the set of patches included.
Since the patches are not totally ordered, just looking at the last patch is
not enough.
For official releases, we tag the current set of patches so we can refer to
it by name (e.g. RELEASE-3.3.3).
Note though that the unlexer does the wrong thing with initial words that are
supposed to be capitalized, e.g. "I am ready.", "Spanish wine is good.", so
these sentenses are not translated at the moment.
* Update Setup.hs to build Japanese by default.
* News item about Japanese on the home page.
* Add Japanese to the supported RGL imports in the grammar editor (gfse).
As a temporary workaround, alex is no longer invoked automatically when
building with cabal. Developers who want to modify the lexer need to run
alex on Lexer.x manually and record the modified Lexer.hs.
src/compiler/GF/Grammar/lexer/Lexer.x -- hidden from cabal
src/compiler/GF/Grammar/Lexer.hs -- update it manually
Instead of showing the name of a function in the abstract syntax, linearize it
and show the result. For functions with argument, e.g. That : Kind -> Item,
the function is applied to the right number of placeholder arguments: 'That ?'.
If the linearization fails, the name of the function is shown anyway.
The grammar extension is now done with a regular HTML form, so you can use the
TAB key to move between the fields and press ENTER to submit the extension when
you are done.
TODO: more immediate error feedback
The Haskell Platform page for Mac states that Xcode 3.2 or later is ok, but
there seems to be a problem with Xcode 3.2.2.
Also added some other small clarifications.
The current intput is now represented as an array of words instead of as a
string.
(This is the kind of change is scary to do in a dynamically type language
like JavaScript. In a statically typed language like Haskell you can do it
with confidence, since you know the compiler can help you catch all mistakes...)
If you leave the minibar and later return, the previous input will be
restored. One input string per grammar is rememebered, so you can also switch
back and forth between grammars without losing the input.
This is implemented using localStorage, i.e. the data is stored locally on
the user's device.
Instead of trying to reconstruct the abstract tree from the bracketed string,
use the node numbers (the field called "fid") to identify which node in the
abstact syntax tree a word in the bracketed string corresponds to.
Abstract syntax trees are represented as strings in the web API. To make them
easier to manipulate in JavaScript, the new function converts them to JSON.
To support structural editing, the nodes are numbered in the same way as in
the bracketed string created when linearizing an abstract syntax tree.
Example: "Pred (That Fish) Fresh" is converted to
{fun:"Pred",fid:3,
children:[{fun:"That",fid:1,
children:[{fun:"Fish",fid:0}]},
{fun:"Fresh",fid:2}]}
Removing "ghc-options: -O2" from gf.cabal has the following advantages:
+ Compiling GF is faster (time drops from 182s to 142s on my laptop)
+ Compiling the RGL is faster (time drops from 159s to 155s on my laptop)
+ Without the hardwired optimization level, the 'cabal configure' options
--enable-optimization=<n> and --disable-optimization work as expected
(so if you still want -O2, use --enable-optimization=2)
+ GF can be compiled with ghc-7.2.2 and ghc-7.4.1 (-O2 triggers a bug in
these versions of ghc, it seems. Another workaround, discovered by
Sergei Trofimovich, is to use -O0 in Data.Binary.)
An apparent bug in ghc-7.2.2 causes the type Value to be exported from PGF.Data.
Workaround: restrict the imports from PGF.Data in GF.Command.Abstract and
GF.Compile.GeneratePMCFG to avoid the clash with locally defined type Value.
(ghc-7.0.4 and ghc-7.4.1 appear to be free from this bug.)
You can also add grammars from several directories on the same server of course.
The included minibar configuration file adds the user's own grammars from the
grammar editor.
+ Function div_id was defined in both editor.js and support.js. Solution:
moved the more general version from editor.js to support.js.
+ Function div_class was defined in both editor.js and support.js. Solution:
resolv incompatibility with an argument type test and put the generalized
function in support.js.
Also brought index.txt and index.html back in sync. (It looks like someone
updated index.html instead of updating index.txt and regenerating index.html.)
Check that the reconstructed abstract syntax tree is type correct before
enabling word-for-word replacement. Show an error message if word replacement
nevertheless fails.
To enable customized error handling, the methods in the pgf_online objects and
the AJAX server call functions in support.js accept an error callback function
as an extra argument, in addition to the callback (continuation) for normal
results.
Turn off the highlighting that indicates that word-for-word replacement is
enabled when it is no longer available (e.g if a word is deleted and there no
longer is a complete parse).
It seems that in Gecko browsers, the effect of "with(x) stmts" reaches inside
the bodies of local functions in stmts, but in Webkit browers it does not.
+ Make room for function names in the BracketedString data structure.
+ Fill in function names when linearizing an abstract syntax tree to a
BracketedString.
+ Fill in wildCId when it is not obvious what the function is.
+ Function bracketedLinearize: for compatibility with the other linearization
functions, return Leaf "" instead of error "cannot linearize".
+ Export flattenBracketedString from module PGF.
+ PGFServce: make function names available in the JSON representation of
BracketedString.
To get JSON output, add the parameter format=json. The JSON structure contains
the output from the function PGF.browse.
The default is format=html for backwards compatibility.
hallgren