On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 11:47 AM Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Pablo, > > how are things going? Are there any blockers you might need help with?
Hello! All is good. Too good actually (since last time we talked I started 3 new contracts, trying to see if I can make one of them somewhat related to UIMA-CPP). Yes, there are a number of things that'd be good to discuss here: * The main new work I have done is to write a pkg-config file for UIMA-CPP that is fed from automake (more on this below). * I looked at the existing documentation, the README.4bin [1] file says that only linux is supported (the exact wording is "MacOS and Windows versions are delayed pending user requests"). If that is the case, we are much closer to making a release and I can reuse that wording on the README.md. * Went through the bug reports [2], most of them relate to either the MacOS version or the framework failing to compile on newer systems (feel free to assign the bugs to me or let me know if I can do that myself and I'll figure out JIRA a bit). Or relate to UIMA-AS which we're not working on. * JIRA and the code in the main branch point to a 3.0.0 release. I have scaled that back to a 2.5.0 release. I'm concerned users will be confused as being on par with UIMA3. * The Release Notes [3] contain the following bit: >> Installing UIMACPP SDK as a system-wide shared library is discouraged since >> we do not >> have support for parallel versions. The include directory does not have >> version number and >> there cannot be multiple versions of executables runAECpp and >> deployCppService. As I'm working on getting UIMA-CPP to build with system dependencies, this is a good moment to talk about the changes to the world since UIMA CPP came to be: Most programs these days run on containers. It seems to me that it makes more sense to ship a UIMA-CPP that will run on a particular Linux install and/or a base docker image. That way we ship the UIMA-CPP binary library, include files, etc installed as system files. There is no longer need for UIMACPP_HOME to be defined and we can use existing techniques to find dependencies and command-line arguments (like pkg-config [4]).This allows to do things like g++ `pkg-config uima --cflags` -c DaveAnnotator.cpp This changes the concept of what the SDK _is_, as it is now tied to different underlying releases of the OS. Maybe we can use github actions [5] to support a few distros without extra effort. But let's discuss what other people think and where to take it. I'm also thinking about how useful this release will be in a world where UIMA2 has been retired. So I'm thinking about adding a non-trivial example wrapping the ONNX C++ runtime [6]. That could be fun (and useful) (and related to some of my current contracts) but will further delay the release. For a future release, I really want to work on aggregate AEs support. There was an earlier comment when discussing the retirement of UIMA-CPP in that regard [7] and it has stayed with me. But that'd be too much for this release. There is a bit of busy work ahead cleaning up the existing documentation files. That also needs to be factored in for a timeline for the release. Last but not least, I have been working on my fork [8]. I see most commits have JIRA issues associated with them. When the time is ready I make a pull request from my project? What would you suggest? P [1] https://github.com/apache/uima-uimacpp/blob/main/README.4bin [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-6175?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%22C%2B%2B%20Framework%22 [3] https://github.com/apache/uima-uimacpp/blob/main/RELEASE_NOTES.html (yes, that is a MS Word HTML file, I'll change it to markdown for the release.) [4] https://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html [5] https://docs.github.com/en/actions [6] https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/build/inferencing.html#supported-architectures-and-build-environments [7] https://lists.apache.org/thread/f1r3sghgn2oqhvzz27y26zg6j3olv8qq [8] https://github.com/DrDub/uima-uimacpp
