[developers] Updating [incr tsdb()] profiles

[Emily M. Bender]

Thanks for the speedy reply! When I try double-click, I get a message in
the *common-lisp* buffer saying that the profile is out of date.

Attempting the pathway you suggested above resulted in a complaint of an
arity mismatch in `item'.

For context: This is for a demo I'm doing today to show a bunch of field
linguists what grammar engineering could potentially do for them. So I've
been trying to dust off the wambaya profiles, but I have work arounds.

Emily


On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:25 AM Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:

> hiya,
>
> technically, these profiles are considered read-only, because [incr
> tsdb()] will refuse to write to out-of-date database schemas.
>
> but i would have expected double-click (to parse interactively) to work
> ... what happens?
>
> to treebank, on the other hand, does require write access.  it might work
> to (a) make a copy of the profile, (b) throw away all files except ‘item’,
> (c) copy in a current ‘relations’ file, and initialize an empty set of new
> relations via a command like ‘tsdb -home . -query "select i-input"’.
>
> good luck :-)!  oe
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 16:09 Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Do we have a simple way to take an old (circa 2010) set of profiles and
>> update them to the current expected database format? The profiles in
>> question are the ones I put together for Wambaya and I can still open them
>> with the modern [incr tsdb()] but I can't do everything I'd like (double
>> click to send for parsing, annotating trees).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emily
>>
>>
>> --
>> Emily M. Bender
>> Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professor
>> Department of Linguistics
>> Faculty Director, CLMS
>> University of Washington
>> Twitter: @emilymbender
>>
>

-- 
Emily M. Bender
Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professor
Department of Linguistics
Faculty Director, CLMS
University of Washington
Twitter: @emilymbender
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