[CWB] CQPweb: v 3.1.0 now usable, I think

[Hardie, Andrew]

Hi all,

My grand re-structuring of almost everything for CQPweb v 3.1.0 is now finished. 

There is not much visible difference, but a lot has changed under the bonnet, and this will hopefully make it quicker and easier to implement new features.

If you are an adventurous sort, I think you can now safely upgrade to 3.1.0 (repo commit 497). There are probably bugs; reports very welcome.

If you are less adventurous, you might want to stick with 3.0.16 a bit longer, until the worst problems are dealt with.

Currently 3.1 runs nowhere but on my computer. Later today I hope to upgrade the Lancaster to 3.1, so those of you with accounts on that server can have a look at it later this week to see what has changed.

One big change that you won't see from looking at a server is that I have completely revamped the sysadmin documentation. Previously this consisted of a series of HTML files - the maintenance of which has become increasingly hairy over the past couple of years. Now, I have shifted most of these over into a "CQPweb System Administrator's Manual" written in LaTeX and available within the usual documentation tree on the SourceForge repository. I hope that this new format will (a) make it more maintainable (b) make it easier for others to contribute patches. There are still a couple of HTML files to convert; these will be done as and when I find a moment.

Like the CWB and CQP tutorials, the manual compiles to both PDF and HTML; the PDF is included with CQPweb and is also on the website here:

http://cwb.sourceforge.net/files/CQPwebAdminManual.pdf 

Crucially, it has a couple of sections that between them cover the process of upgrading from v 3.0.16 to 3.1.0, which, given all the changes I have made, is non-straightforward.

That's all for now.

best

Andrew.