I agree it would make development easier to donate mshadow to mxnet code base, 
since mshadow is only used in MXNet. I support donating the mshadow code to 
mxnet and I started an RFC for this in mshadow [1].

[1] https://github.com/dmlc/mshadow/issues/373

-sz

On 2019/04/06 04:38:19, Tianqi Chen <tqc...@cs.washington.edu> wrote: 
> Technically, mshadow is sufficient for MXNet. Adopting other libraries (
> eigen or xtensor) will unnecessarily increase the codebase complexity
> without any additional gains.
> 
> Given that mshadow is only used by mxnet. I do support donating it into
> mxnet codebase.
> To respect the original mshadow community. I would recommend starting a
> community RFC In the mshadow github issue for a week, before we start the
> migrating process.
> Also, I would recommend a rebase merge just like the case of MXNet.jl code
> base to preserve the contribution history.
> 
> Tianqi
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 9:25 PM Alfredo Luque
> <alfredo.lu...@airbnb.com.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > Do you have a link to both of these proposals?
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 20:14 Anirudh Acharya <anirudhk...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Pedro,
> > >
> > > mshadow is mostly used for tensor arithmetic. There have been discussions
> > > about including it within mxnet. I think it is a good idea.
> > >
> > > As a more long term solution using libraries like eigen to perform linear
> > > algebra operations was also suggested by anirudh2290@. I think xtensor(
> > > https://github.com/QuantStack/xtensor ) can also be a candidate here.
> > >
> > > -
> > > Anirudh
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 7:03 PM Pedro Larroy <
> > pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > Some developers have noticed that working in mshadow is cumbersome as
> > > > it's a 3rdparty subrepo.
> > > >
> > > > Since mshadow is a bunch of headers which don't have much of
> > > > independent tests / library functionality, me and other developers
> > > > believe that it would be good to assimilate this code in the
> > > > repository for ease of contribution and changes without having to go
> > > > trough contortions to test PRs that modify mshadow.
> > > >
> > > > Would anybody oppose this change?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks and have a nice weekend.
> > > >
> > > > Pedro.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> 

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