Kostantin, and what (overall) option with using Gradle? Does this your suggested package manager has been supported by Gradle?
Ivan On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:43 AM Konstantin Ivlev <tomsks...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > this email is related to the following PR and JIRA ticket: > - [MXNET-1229] use OpenBLAS, lapack & OpenCV from conan > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13400> > - use conan to manage project dependencies > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MXNET-1229> > > conan <https://conan.io> is an open-source package manager for C++ > projects. it allows to manage project dependencies in transparent and > declarative manner. > > currently, apache incubator-mxnet project uses the following different > ways to manage its dependencies: > > - download GitHub archives during the build > - OpenBLAS <https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS> > - OpenCV <https://github.com/opencv/opencv> > - conda <https://conda.io/> (alternative way to GitHub archives) > - download from CMake > - Intel Math Kernel Library <https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl> > (MKL) > - Git submodules > - cub <https://github.com/dmlc/cub> > - dlpack <https://github.com/dmlc/dlpack> > - dmlc-core <https://github.com/dmlc/dmlc-core> > - googletest <https://github.com/abseil/googletest> > - mkldnn <https://github.com/intel/mkl-dnn> > - mshadow <https://github.com/dmlc/mshadow> > - onnx-tensorrt <https://github.com/onnx/onnx-tensorrt> > - openmp <https://github.com/llvm-mirror/openmp> > - ps-lite <https://github.com/dmlc/ps-lite> > - tvm <https://github.com/dmlc/tvm> > > this appears to be very heterogeneous and hard to manage/maintain, as > multiple various commands are in use to achieve dependencies installation, > as well as multiple places are to look for dependency versions and their > updates. > > with conan, it may became much more straightforward, as dependencies will > be declared in single place (conanfile) and installed via single command > (conan install). > > as project is very complex, and has lots of dependencies, for the first > prototype I've used only very few of dependencies from conan: OpenCV > <https://bintray.com/conan-community/conan/opencv%3Aconan>, OpenBLAS > <https://bintray.com/conan-community/conan/openblas%3Aconan> and lapack > <https://bintray.com/conan-community/conan/lapack%3Aconan>. > others may be easily added then one by one, but they first has to be > packaged (not all of them are packaged yet, e.g. GoogleTest > <https://bintray.com/bincrafters/public-conan/gtest%3Abincrafters> is > available, while MKL is not). > > I attach patch which adds an initial conan support as proof of concept. > also, I attach two simple build scripts, which I've used to test (for > Windows and Linux / Mac OS X). Google Mail blocks .sh and .cmd extensions, > so you'll need to rename files. > lemme know if you have any further questions. > > yours sincerely, Konstantin >
