[pet] Poll to identify actively used functionality in PET

[Berthold Crysmann]

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 19:17 +0200, Bernd Kiefer wrote:
> This mail adresses all people using PET.
> 
> We (the developers of PET) are planning major code changes that include
> also the removal of unused or unsupported functionality. We ask for
> your kind contribution to get a better picture of which of it is still
> in use and maybe needs to be supported. If you still actively use one
> of the following, please let us know.
> 
> Input formats we'd like to discard:
> 
> - pic / pic_counts
> - yy_counts
> - smaf
> - fsr
> 
> Diverse options and the functionality behind it (some of them maybe more
> controversial):
> 
> -default-les=traditional  determine default les by posmapping for all
>                            lexical gaps
> -no-chart-man             Old style chart manipulation aka chart
>                            dependencies
> -no-hyper                 Disable hyper-active parsing

This is some magic I was told to use when  computing qc paths. If it's
obsolte for that use case, I don't care. 

> -no-filter                Disable automatically computed rule filter.
> -key=n                    Selecting the method for determining the rule
>                            argument that will be filled first

Is this not the flag needed to determine empirically what would be the
best KEY-ARG ? I do appreciate your trust in most grammar developers to
figure that out with pencil and paper, but I personally would like to
keep this functionality. 

Berthold

 
> -lattice (allows combination restrictions specifying path numbers)
> -server (yy -- Stephan?)
> 
> The removal of the following functionality has already been agreed
> upon by a lot of people, still, you may also give feedback to that:
> 
> - MRS modes that are only supported using Lisp code from the LKB with
>    ECL Modes that will still be supported are: native MRX and simple MRS
>    Conversion to rmrs formats is planned to be supported by a standalone 
> binary
> - FSPP input mode (requires ECL)
> 
> Because these are the only modules that require the inclusion of ECL,
> support for ECL in PET will also be removed.
> 
> Please take the time for answering us because we don't want to
> create unnecessary problems by removing important functionality.
> 
> Best,
> 	Bernd Kiefer
>