[developers] new release of LKB-FOS

John Carroll J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk
Mon Dec 28 19:00:41 UTC 2020


Hi all,

I've made a new release of LKB-FOS. Pre-packaged binaries etc are at the usual place http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~johnca/lkb_fos.tgz and the LKB SVN fos branch is up to date.

There's not a lot new on the surface: it's just a bit more zippy and less buggy. See below for details (taken from the README).

John

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* Made dialog boxes open a little less slowly on macOS, partially working around a widely complained-about graphics issue in XQuartz.

* Internal improvements to use more appropriate data structures in quickcheck and generator. More thorough consistency checking when reading quickcheck paths file.

* In the parser, setting the parameter *non-idiom-root* had no effect; now, if set to the name of an instance, this is checked against each parsing result to see whether *additional-root-condition* needs testing. In the generator, failure of *additional-root-condition* now only outputs a warning. 

* Reversed a poor decision in the July 2020 version to generalise passive edge top types internally to improve packing; this caused problems with GG.

* Updated tsdb and swish++ binaries to March 2020 versions from the LOGON distribution; profiles with fields containing integers longer than 30 bits are now retrieved correctly. [incr tsdb()] failed to follow symbolic links to profiles - fixed.

* In LUI, when attempting interactive unification, a failure when applying a type constraint was sometimes ignored - fixed. Also fixed a problem displaying a type with no features in LUI.

* In View... command dialogs, grammar entities with names consisting only of digits are now found. Also fixed related bug where the initial suggestion was displayed with vertical bars around it if it started with a digit.

* Reading of transfer and MRS rules now follows the revised TDL syntax specification in TdlRfc; error recovery after TDL syntax errors in these rule files is also improved.





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