Re: Propose to discontinue supporting Apache MXNet on Windows 7

2018-09-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
IMO, either major or minor is fine, not just patch ;) > On Aug 30, 2018, at 2:34 AM, Lv, Tao A wrote: > > If we really want to discontinue the support on Win7, maybe it should happen > in a major release like 2.0.0. > > > -Original Message- > From: dev-return-4003-tao.a.lv=intel@m

Re: [VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.3.0.RC0

2018-09-02 Thread Sheng Zha
Hi Steffen and Zhi, That's because those are not the artifacts being voted on. I just uploaded the actual release artifact to [1]. Unfortunately, even the lengthy release process doc [2] didn't capture this step... Steffen, In case you don't already know, regarding the version string, since we

Re: Propose to discontinue supporting Apache MXNet on Windows 7

2018-09-02 Thread Barber, Christopher
FWIW, my company is only beginning to transition to Windows 10 now, and my past experience would lead me to believe that many enterprises stick with old versions of Windows long past when you think they would. Seems to me that if you are unwilling to deprecate python 2.7, then continuing to sup

Re: Propose to discontinue supporting Apache MXNet on Windows 7

2018-09-02 Thread Marco de Abreu
Thanks for the data and these quite important points. I agree and hereby change my vote to -1. Barber, Christopher schrieb am So., 2. Sep. 2018, 18:56: > FWIW, my company is only beginning to transition to Windows 10 now, and my > past experience would lead me to believe that many enterprises st

Re: [VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.3.0.RC0

2018-09-02 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
Sheng, thanks for clarification. That make sense to me. I will change the vote to +1 > > On Sep 2, 2018 at 9:43 AM, mailto:zhash...@apache.org)> wrote: > > > > Hi Steffen and Zhi, > > That's because those are not the artifacts being voted on. I just u

Re: Propose to discontinue supporting Apache MXNet on Windows 7

2018-09-02 Thread Timur Shenkao
>> I also believe that it is possible to install more recent >> versions of Visual Studio on Windows 7. It's about security reasons and AD permissions and bought licenses for VS, not about general technical impossibility of installation of up-to-date versions. On Sunday, September 2, 2018, Marco

Re: [VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.3.0.RC0

2018-09-02 Thread Steffen Rochel
Thanks Sheng. With [1] I was able to build and test 1.3.0.rc0. Explanation of version makes sense. Changing my vote to +1. Roshani - please note, master still has version 1.3.0. This makes it difficult to differentiate to rc0. Hope master version will be updated soon as part of release process. Th