Re: Apache MXNet (incubating) Python Docker Images

2018-10-22 Thread kellen sunderland
Hey Sergio, I think it's mostly to keep the Dockerfile size down by matching the system python package. Of course people can extend the image and use python 3.6 / 3.7. I think we should follow this up with an update to the new Ubuntu LTS version as a base docker image at which point it would use

Re: Apache MXNet (incubating) Python Docker Images

2018-10-19 Thread Sergio Fernández
Python 2.7 reaches End of Life by the end on 2019.Take that into account. About Python 3.x, why not having 3.6 docker images? I know 3.7 is not yet supposed by MXNet. But starting with 3 5 doesn't make much sense for me On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 11:52 Meghna Baijal wrote: > Hi All, > > I am current

Re: Apache MXNet (incubating) Python Docker Images

2018-10-18 Thread Meghna Baijal
Thank you Kellen and Steffen for your comments. I will wait for some more time in case anyone has a different opinion, else go ahead with the above recommendation. Meghna On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:18 PM Steffen Rochel wrote: > +1 on Kellen’s comments and suggestion. > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at

Re: Apache MXNet (incubating) Python Docker Images

2018-10-17 Thread Steffen Rochel
+1 on Kellen’s comments and suggestion. On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:39 PM kellen sunderland < kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> wrote: > This feels like something we should get a little data on before making a > decision, but I also don't have a strong opinion. I would bias towards > pushing something

Re: Apache MXNet (incubating) Python Docker Images

2018-10-17 Thread kellen sunderland
This feels like something we should get a little data on before making a decision, but I also don't have a strong opinion. I would bias towards pushing something that might be imperfect and moving on to develop other improvements for users rather than determining a 'perfect' solution. The questio

Apache MXNet (incubating) Python Docker Images

2018-10-17 Thread Meghna Baijal
Hi All, I am currently in the process of updating the python docker images for Apache MXNet such that they are built on top of the pip binaries. Until now these were built to use python 2.7 but with an upcoming PR I am also adding python 3.5 docker images. I would like to know the community’s pref