Re: Scala standard library is included in the mxnet jar

2018-12-04 Thread Pedro Larroy
Chris, I asked in github before and in other private forums before and I wanted to bring attention to the topic nothing more, you are reading too much between the lines. There's nothing impolite about my question and I think dev@ is the right forum for such conversations. Pedro. On Tue, Dec 4,

Re: Scala standard library is included in the mxnet jar

2018-12-04 Thread Pedro Larroy
In my opinion that's not a good reason and the majority of other libraries in maven don't do that. Is the first time I see a Scala library do that. If every library would include the standard library, asides from the unnecessary bloating you have the problem that at runtime, when you mix

Re: Scala standard library is included in the mxnet jar

2018-12-04 Thread Naveen Swamy
Pedro, Not everyone has Scala installed on their system, especially for example they are Java/Clojure users(and they don't have to). I don't expect them to download/install Scala libraries. IMO, this approach is correct and lowers the entry bar for users. Soon, we are going include all

Re: Scala standard library is included in the mxnet jar

2018-12-04 Thread Chris Olivier
Pedro, It would be polite to ask if there is a reason it is included before categorically declaring it is wrong. I am not involved in the scala library and what's included in it, but maybe there's a good reason for it. Or maybe there isn't. Either way, it's best to ask first :) Thanks, -Chris

Scala standard library is included in the mxnet jar

2018-12-04 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi I filled this issue because I observed that the Scala standard library is included in the mxnet jar: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/13528 I don't think this is correct. Libraries should not include the standard library. Why are we doing this? Pedro.