Re: Anyone interested in Tensorflow packaging? Makefile available now.
Hello Lumin,
just my 2 cts. Cmake is usually crossplatform. So it should not
be too difficult to adopt it for Linux. It would be much better as a
set of hardcoded makefiles which can be a nightmare in a long
perspective.
> * abseil [missing]
I have started to prepare a package of it [1]. But there are a couple
of principal questions which need to be discussed with upstream.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/abseil
Regards
Anton
2018-07-05 16:05 GMT+02:00 Lumin <cdluminate@gmail.com>:
> Hello d-Science and d-Python team,
>
> Long time ago, TensorFlow packaging was blocked by bazel,
> a google's java-based building system which is hard to harness.
> At that time, cmake build was available but it's written for
> windows.
>
> However, by chance I discovered that tensorflow now ships
> a set of makefiles[1], which is explicitly saying "support Ubuntu".
> That means packaging TensorFlow is now viable, as long as we patch
> the build system to prevent it from downloading tarballs.
>
> If you are looking for things to do, or interested in machine learning
> or deep learning applications, you might want to have a look at it.
>
> However, I'm not working on it because:
> 1. I'm a bit overload these days, working on the Julia package.
> 2. unfortunately I don't like TensorFlow. I like it's main
> competitor -- PyTorch.
> But if someone is going to do something about it, I'd be happy to help.
>
>
> Let's have a look at the dependencies:
>
> * eigen [OK]
> * gemmlowp [OK, maintained by me]
> * googletest [OK]
> * nsync [missing]
> * protobuf [OK]
> * re2 [OK]
> * fft2d [missing]
> * abseil [missing]
> * cub [missing, NVIDIA's BSD-3-clause software that depends on CUDA]
> We don't need this pile of code when compiling CPU-only tensorflow.
>
> If someone is going to hack the makefiles, I'd suggest that,
> try building a CPU-only version first.
>
> Best,
>
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/contrib/makefile/build_all_linux.sh
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/contrib/makefile/download_dependencies.sh
>
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