[developers] LUI binaries in the main LKB repository

[Francis Bond]

Good points Alex --- please ask Stephan for an account on the wiki and
update the pages.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:56 PM Alexandre Rademaker
<arademaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Woodley said on Wed Feb 13:
>
> > Developers,
> >
> > I have taken Francis's advice and set up scripts for compiling a
> > full-ish set of binaries for ACE-dependent tools.  My plan is to upload
> > a package of such binaries to the following address whenever(?) I
> > release new ACE versions.  You will find 0.9.29 and 0.9.30 compatible
> > binaries there today for fftb, csaw, ffmaster, ffworker, exmaster and
> > exworker.  If you grab an fftb binary from here, keep in mind that you
> > need to either explicitly tell it where the HTML/JS files it needs live
> > with --webdir= or else put the binary adjacent to that assets directory.
> >
> > http://sweaglesw.org/linguistics/acetools/
> >
> > I hope this proves useful to somebody :-).  Please let me know if you
> > find that these binaries don't work, or if you notice I am not keeping
> > up with publishing them.  For the moment you will only find x86
> > binaries; scripting the build process for OSX, for the moment, is still
> > on the to-do list.  Note that yzlui and art binaries are not tied to ACE
> > versions.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Does it make sense to improve the wiki somehow connecting the pages below?
>
> http://moin.delph-in.net/AceCsaw (*)
> http://moin.delph-in.net/FftbTop
> http://moin.delph-in.net/FeatureForestTrainer
>
> I had to search for exworker, ffworker and csaw to understand what are these tools. BTW, in the first page (*) above, what is the difference between the two command lines:
>
> echo "My sentence." | ./csaw path/to/my/grammar.dat treebank.pcfg
> echo "My sentence." | .ace -g path/to/my/grammar.dat --pcfg=treebank.pcfg
>
> They provide the same functionality? They are alternative ways to do the same thing?
>
>
> 2. It would be nice to have the page http://moin.delph-in.net/FftbTop updated, the current link points to a fftb version that is compatible only with ACE 0.9.19. Since my primary environment is MacOS, and I haven't figure out yet how to make fftb work from a docker container exporting the port to the host MacOS, I wonder if I can help with something to make the ports to OSX available.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Alexandre Rademaker
> http://arademaker.github.io
>
>
>


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Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University