Hi, A little over a month ago, we announced the nightly build of the Scala package on Nexus [1]. It featured the same statically linked binary build logic used by the Python pip to make the adoption as easy for our JVM users as for our python users. However, that release occurred on a private pipeline using code that was not publicly available.
First, I would like to thank Sheng for contributing the pip binary build scripts to the community and making them accessible as part of the MXNet repository [2]. Now, everyone can produce similar published artifacts for their own needs and we can better verify the release production code as part of the Jenkins CI. Using his contribution, we have created a new job on the MXNet Jenkins for publishing artifacts on a nightly basis [3]. In order to ensure the highest quality for our releases regardless of user system, it will automatically test the artifacts across other distributions including Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and CentOS 7 as part of the deployment. You can find the code for the nightly publish pipeline on the repo [4]. We hope that others can work off of this pipeline to help expand the same static building and thorough testing to additional MXNet packages and language bindings in the future. Special thanks to Qing for his help throughout the project, Sheng for the binary build logic, Marco for his reviews and support working with Jenkins, Anton for setting up the development Jenkins for us, and Frank and Naveen for work on the Scala maven build and deployment. Zach [1] - https://repository.apache.org/#nexus-search;quick~org.apache.mxnet [2] - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/master/tools/staticbuild [3] - http://jenkins.mxnet-ci.amazon-ml.com/job/restricted-publish-artifacts/job/master/ [4] - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/master/ci/publish
