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* Just skip the Java binding if there were errors compiling it. * Install the Python binding in the expected place on Mac OS X when creating an OS X installer package. (i.e. under /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages) Also updated the 3.8 download page and release notes to reflect the above.
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GF 3.8 Release Notes
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June 2016
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%!postproc(html): <H1> <H1><a href="../"><IMG src="../doc/Logos/gf0.png"></a>
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==Installation==
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See the [download page http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download/index.html].
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==What's new==
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Over 395 changes have been pushed to the source repository since
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[the release of GF 3.7.1 release-3.7.1.html] in October 2015.
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===GF compiler and run-time library===
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====New features and notable changes====
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- GF shell: ``vd`` can now output
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[universal dependency http://universaldependencies.org/] diagrams
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in various formats, see ``help vd``.
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- ...
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====Other changes and bug fixes====
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- GF shell: a simple post-processing step has been added in the ``cc`` command
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to try compute ``pre{...}`` tokens instead of leaving them uninterpreted.
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- GF shell: an argument parsing problem has been fixed in the ``cc`` command.
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The problem was introduced before the release of GF 3.7.1 and prevented
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commands like ``cc "last"`` and ``cc "last"++"year"`` from working,
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but they should work again now.
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- Python binding: with the OS X installer package (``gf-3.8.pkg``)
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the Python binding should now work directly out of the package.
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(The installer puts the modules under ``/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages``,
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where the Python interpreter can find them.)
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- Various improvements and bug fixes in the C run-time system and its bindings
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to other languages.
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====Changes of interest to compiler developers====
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- The compiler source code has been updated for compatibility with GHC 8.0.1.
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===Resource Grammar Library===
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- New languages:
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- Nynorsk by Stian Rødven Eide (fairly complete, supports API)
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- Ancient Greek by Hans Leiß (partial, no API yet)
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- Slovene by Krasimir Angelov (partial, no API yet)
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- Various fixes for several languages.
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- English and Scandinavian: relative clauses and slash questions have been modernized to
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using preposition stranding by default. This also enables the use of //that// in English,
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which solves a problem of choosing between //which// and //who// when animacy information
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is not available. The previous defaults (//which//,//who//,//whom//, pied piping) are available
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in ``Extra`` modules.
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- Numerous fixes in the translation dictionaries.
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- two new wide-coverage languages: Estonian and Russian
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===GF Cloud services===
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- Minibar can now show universal dependency diagrams for grammars that
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support it (e.g. the ResourceDemo grammar).
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- PGF service: there is a new command ``deptree`` that can output
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universal dependency diagrams for grammars that support it (there
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has to be a label configuration file).
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- Wide Coverage Translation Demo:
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there is now a new button "Grammars..." which show a list where users can
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select which application grammars to use for translation, in addition to
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the wide coverage grammar. Application grammars can give higher quality
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translations in the domain they cover.
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You can change the order in which the selected grammars are tried
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by dragging them up and down in the list.
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[www.grammaticalframework.org http://www.grammaticalframework.org]
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