Cabal>=1.20 allows control over parallelism when compiling grammars from
Setup.hs and WebSetup.hs.
base>=4.6 allows conditional compilation with CPP to be eliminated from
a few modules.
base-4.6 corresponds to GHC 7.6.3, which is what you get in
Debian 8 (aka jessie, aka oldstable) from 2015.
Remove ghc-7.4 from the list of tested/recommended versions of GHC
(because of Hackage dependency problems).
Recommend version 7.10.3 of the Haskell Platform. (GHC 8.0.1 works too,
but I haven't tested the corresponding Haskell Platform packages.)
Updated version number in gf.cabal and update debian/changelog
News item on home page (index.html)
Some last minute edits on the download page
Move the new release notes and download page in place.
* "gf -make -j=n" uses n parallel threads.
* "gf -make -j" adapts to the number of processors in the system.
This mimics how "cabal build -j" and "ghc --make -j" works.
Support for this is implemented in the new module GF.System.Concurrency and
it depends on the function Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities, which is
only available in GHC>=7.6 (base>=4.6). GF can still be compiled with
GHC<7.6, but then you have to use +RTS -N -RTS to take advantage of
multicore processors.
To detect the number of processors in the system, the code depends on a
foreign import of a C function in the GHC run-time system.
These commands are now implemented as regular commands (i.e. using the
CommandInfo data type) in the new module GF.Command.SourceCommands.
The list of commands exported from GF.Command.Commmands now called pgfCommands
instead of allCommands.
The list allCommands of all commands is now assembled
from sourceCommands, pgfCommands, commonCommands and helpCommand in
GF.Interactive.
Some C run-time functionality is now available in the GF shell, by starting
GF with 'gf -cshell' or 'gf -crun'. Only limited functionality is available
when running the shell in these modes:
- You can only import .pgf files, not source files.
- The -retain flag can not be used and the commands that require it to work
are not available.
- Only 18 of the 40 commands available in the usual shell have been
implemented. The 'linearize' and 'parse' commands are the only ones
that call the C run-time system, and they support only a limited set of
options and flags. Use the 'help' commmands for details.
- A new command 'generate_all', that calls PGF2.generateAll, has been added.
Unfortuntaly, using it causes 'segmentation fault'.
This is implemented by adding two new modules: GF.Command.Commands2 and
GF.Interactive2. They are copied and modified versions of GF.Command.Commands
and GF.Interactive, respectively. Code for unimplemented commands and other
code that has not been adapted to the C run-time system has been left in
place, but commented out, pending further work.
+ Move type CommandInfo from GF.Command.Commands to a new module
GF.Commands.CommandInfo and make it independent of the PGF type.
+ Make the module GF.Command.Interpreter independent of the PGF type and
eliminate the import of GF.Command.Commands.
+ Move the implementation of the "help" command to its own module
GF.Command.Help
For further separation of pretty printing concerns from conversion concerns,
the Haskell AST and pretty printer has been moved to its own module,
GF.Haskell, also allowing it to be reused in other places where Haskell
code is generated.
2 modules: Name clashes caused by Applicative-Monad change in Prelude
2 modules: Ambiguities caused by Foldable/Traversable in Prelude
2 modules: Backwards incompatible changes in time-1.5 for defaultTimeLocale
9 modules: {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-} (because GHC checks inferred types
now, in addition to explicitly given type signatures)
Also silenced warnings about tab characters in source files.
