Hi Konstantin, While conan looks like an option that's worth exploring, given that your request is to merge the pull request, I'd suggest that the request should go through the regular pull request review and it doesn't really need a vote (as it doesn't substitute reviews anyway)
If you would like to gather more attention to it, feel free to ping in a discussion thread. -sz On 2019/05/03 06:29:55, Konstantin Ivlev <tomsks...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear MXNet community, > > This is the 3-day vote to add conan support for Apache MXNet (incubating) > version v1.4.1. > The voting on dev@ list will start May 03 23:59:59 (PST) and close on May > 06 23:59:59. > > Background: conan is open-source, freeware, cross-platform package manager > for C and C++ projects, written in python. it provides integration with > various build systems, include CMake. conan may use bintray as a server to > store and download pre-built packages, or packages might be always built > from sources. > > Problem: currently (as for v1.4.1), Apache MXNet (incubating) is using > several ways to fetch 3rd-party dependencies simultaneously, for instance: > 1. download GitHub archives during the build > - OpenBLAS > - OpenCV > 2. conda (alternative way to GitHub archives) > 3. download from CMake > - Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) > 4. Git submodules > - cub > - dlpack > - dmlc-core > - googletest > - mkldnn > - mshadow > - onnx-tensorrt > - openmp > - ps-lite > - tvm > therefore, there are multiple places to look for 3rd parties, and its hard > to update them, as you need to remember or figure it out how to update a > particular dependency to newer version, for instance. > current Apache MXNet (incubating) build instructions differ very much per > platform, require to download and unzip some archives manually, specifying > variables with paths to this archives, in conjunction of updating git > submodules, > > Action: merge pull request providing an initial conan support for Apache > MXNet (incubating). support conan as an alternate approach to fetch various > 3rd-party dependencies. old approaches will be still available, supported > and left intact. > > Below are links to > 1) conan web-site: https://conan.io/ > 2) conan GitHub repository: https://github.com/conan-io/conan > 3) conan documentation: https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/ > 4) bintray: https://bintray.com > 5) pull request adding conan support to Apache MXNet (incubating): > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13400 > 6) JIRA issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MXNET-1229 > 7) previous email discussion: > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/301a46a637f7e3c249c475713f701bef7530c32bc92d8834c0882897@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E > 8) MXNet build instructions: > https://mxnet-tqchen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_to/build.html > 9) MXNet build instructions (Windows): > https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/versions/master/install/windows_setup.html > 10) MXNet build instructions (OSX): > http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/versions/master/install/osx_setup.html > 11) MXNet build instructions (Linux): > http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/versions/master/install/ubuntu_setup.html > 12) MXNet development setup (OSX): > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNet+Developer+Setup+on+Mac > > Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly: > +1 = approve > +0 = no opinion > -1 = disapprove (provide reason) > > Best regards, > Konstantin Ivlev >
