I have an open issue about gathering data per platform install so there can be an informed discussion on prioritization or even cutting platforms. Until then... I wouldn't cut one.
I would like to hear the pros and cons for dropping some native platform support in favor of containers. But... For windows I believe Nvidia still hasn't provided a way to access the GPU from docker on most windows OSs. If that's true, that would imply we shouldn't drop windows assuming that windows users will be able to run things in docker. That being said, why support every range of possibilty of blas or mkl or opencv? Why not come up with a set of strict dependencies for windows to simplify the build, CI, and binary distribution? On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 09:30 Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I would like to propose a discussion to slim down CI by dropping some jobs > which are of questionable value, other which have received little community > support: > > - Drop centos: we can't support every distro, if anything we should clearly > specify which versions of base libraries are needed and test for the latest > stable release of Ubuntu. I don't see much value in testing different > distribution flavours. Not sure what was the rationale for adding CentOS in > the past but this might no longer apply. > > - Drop windows: windows has received little attention from the community > and mostly has served as a gatekeeping from CI. > > Dropping windows would allow to migrate to a more advanced CI framework > such as Drone or a fully container based one given that Jenkins has quite a > bit of baggage and for the most part we are testing on containers. > > Pedro. >
