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Two of the fixes were in the custom version of the binary package. We should get rid of it at some point, to reduce the maintenance burden. The third fix was to add new version constraints for happy and alex in gf.cabal. New versions of them are needed because of the ugly, low-level, GHC-specific code they produce need to be different for GHC 7.8. More fixes might be needed for -server mode, but the cgi package is not compatible with GHC 7.8 at the moment, so it will have to wait.
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 download/index.html for installation instructions.
(More details can be found in doc/gf-developers.html.)