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The dependency on the fastcgi package made pgf-server difficult to compile, so
it is now split into
- pgf-fgci (main module in pgf-fcgi.hs), which is built only if fastcgi is
already installed or if you turn on the fastcgi flag (e.g. by doing
'cabal install -f fastcgi').
- pgf-http (main module in pgf-http.hs) which is always built (and hopefully
has no problematic dependencies.)
The modules FastCGIUtils and PGFService no longer depend on fastcgi.
DESCRIPTION
The Grammatical Framework (=GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory.
It consists of
* a special-purpose programming language
* a compiler of the language
* a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the
generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
* generation
* parsing
* translation
* type checking
* computation
* paraphrasing
* random generation
* syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
* multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
* semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic
properties of expressions)
* grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
* embeddability in programs written in other languages (C,C++,
Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
COMPILATION and INSTALLATION of source distribution:
See doc/gf-developers.html for installation instructions.