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* NEWS, configure.ac: Bump version to 1.0.
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New in spot 0.9.2a:
New in spot 1.0 (2012-10-27):
* License change: Spot is now distributed using GPL v3+ instead
of GPL v2+. This is because we started using some third-party
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Useful command-line tools are now installed in addition to the
library. Some of these tools were originally written for our test
suite and had evolved organically into useful programs with crapy
suite and had evolved organically into useful programs with crappy
interfaces: they have now been rewritten with better argument
parsing, saner defaults, and they come with man pages.
- genltl: Generate LTL formulas from scallable patterns.
- genltl: Generate LTL formulas from scalable patterns.
This offers 20 patterns so far.
- randltl: Generate random LTL/PSL formulas.
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equivalent, ...
- ltl2tgba: Translate LTL/PSL formulas into Büchi automata (TGBA,
BA, or Monitor). A fondamental change to the
BA, or Monitor). A fundamental change to the
interface is that you may now specify the goal of the
translation: do you you favor deterministic or smaller
automata?
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that supports PSL in addition to LTL, and that can
output more statistics.
These binaries are built in the src/bin/ directory. The former
test versions of genltl and randltl have been removed from the
source tree. The old version of ltl2tgba with its gazillion
options is still is src/tgbatest/ and is meant to be used for
testing only. Although ltlcross is meant to replace LBTT, we
are still using both tools in this release, but this is likely
the last time we redistribute LBTT.
An introduction to these tools can be found on-line at
http://spot.lip6.fr/userdoc/tools.html
The former test versions of genltl and randltl have been removed
from the source tree. The old version of ltl2tgba with its
gazillion options is still is src/tgbatest/ and is meant to be
used for testing only. Although ltlcross is meant to replace
LBTT, we are still using both tools in this release; however this
is likely to be the last release of Spot that redistributes LBTT.
* New features in the Spot library:
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A discussion of these automata, part of Ala Eddine BEN SALEM's
PhD work, should appear in ToPNoC VI (LNCS 7400). The web-based
interface and the aformentioned ltl2tgta tool can be used
interface and the aforementioned ltl2tgta tool can be used
to build testing automata.
- TGBA can now be reduced by Reverse Simulation (in addition to
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- to_wring_string() can be used to print an LTL formula into
Wring's syntax.
- The LTL/PSL parser now has a lenient mode that can be usefull
- The LTL/PSL parser now has a lenient mode that can be useful
to interpret atomic proposition with language-specific constructs.
In lenient mode, any (...) or {...} block that cannot be parsed
as formula will be assumed to be an atomic proposition.
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- minimize_obligation() has a new option to disable WDBA
minimization it cases it would produce a deterministic automaton
that is bigger than the original TGBA. This can help
chosing between less states or more determinism.
choosing between less states or more determinism.
- new functions is_deterministic() and count_nondet_states()
(The count of nondeterministic states is now displayed on
automata generated with the web interface.)
- A new class, "postprocessor", makes it easier to apply
all availlable simplification algorithms on a TGBA/BA/Monitors.
all available simplification algorithms on a TGBA/BA/Monitors.
* Minor changes: