Sorry to chime in. There is a PR to fix amalgamation. I was pinged several times to merge it but I don't think I have enough knowledge to do that. So it would be great if someone from this thread can help to review.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15303 thanks, -tao -----Original Message----- From: Marco de Abreu <marco.g.ab...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 9:38 PM To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Remove amalgamation Is Amalgamation only used on Android though? Are there any other use cases? -Marco Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 11. Sep. 2019, 11:57: > Hi Anirudh > > Appreciate your feedback and sorry if my email came across that way to > you, I think you might miss some context. I don't think calling > something hacky is anything bad and isn't supposed to be the topic of > the discussion. It was reported as not working by users, hence the > original thread. It was a request for opinions from people who might > actually have tried to work in Mxnet on Android. > > Thanks. > > Pedro. > > > On Tuesday, September 10, 2019, Anirudh Subramanian > <anirudh2...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > Hi Pedro, > > > > I don't see anything "destructive" with Chris asking for > > justification > for > > you calling something "hacky". The only email in this thread where I > > see > ad > > hominems and disrespectful comments is your email. > > > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2019, 10:18 PM Pedro Larroy > > <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> Apache mentors should have a look at these reincident harassment > >> and destructive behaviors which demotivate contributions and take > >> action. It takes only one bad apple to ruin a community. > >> > >> The mobile solution that is known to work as of know is cross > >> compiling with "ci/build.py -p build.android_armv8" or > >> "build.android_armv7". The only advantage of amalgamation is to > >> provide a smaller binary that we > could > >> accomplish with the C preprocessor. > >> > >> My technical contributions speak for themselves, including porting > >> MXNet > to > >> Android and ARM and helping many users run MXNet in Jetson, > >> Raspberry Pi and Android amongst many other topics. I have never > >> been disrespectful > to > >> anyone. I'm entitled to my own technical opinions about > >> amalgamation or > any > >> other piece of code whatsoever, that's no personal disrespect to > >> anyone > and > >> perfectly valid. If you are not interested in this project anymore, > >> do > us > >> all a favor and stop trolling and being toxic. If you want my > >> respect, > step > >> up your technical contributions, be positive and encourage others, > >> this including commits, I haven't seen for many months, please be > >> positive > and > >> constructive. This scorched-earth attitude is only reflecting bad > >> on > you. > >> I'm certainly not interested in your ad-hominems or unasked for > technical > >> advice, which to be honest, showing poor judgment and ignorance. > >> Myself and others have come up with numbers, graphs, metrics and > >> arguments and have been met with dismissal, trolling and > >> sea-lioning. I have recieved your insults via public and private > >> channels (such as linkedin) as have others. This is not ok and has > >> to stop. If you have something personal against me or against your > >> former employer, this is not the right place > or > >> forum. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:56 PM Chris Olivier > >> <cjolivie...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi Pedro, > >> > > >> > While I was not involved with amalgamation or its development in > >> > any > way, > >> > can you please refrain from referring to the work of others as a > "hacky > >> > solution"? This is derogatory slang and the statement was not > supported > >> > with any justification for such name-calling. Someone spent a > >> > good > deal > >> of > >> > time on this solution at some point in time and I am sure it > >> > worked > for > >> its > >> > purpose at that time -- I think it was used in the original > >> > javascript > >> port > >> > as well, actually -- and it is disrespectful to call their > >> > efforts "hacky". Please respect what came before. > >> > > >> > Thanks for understanding, > >> > > >> > -Chris > >> > > >> > > >> > On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:07 PM Pedro Larroy < > >> pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hi > >> > > > >> > > I would like to propose to remove amalgamation from MXNet and > >> > > CI, > users > >> > > have reported that they couldn't use it successfully in > >> > > Android, and instead they were able to use the cross compiled > >> > > docker build > >> > successfully. > >> > > > >> > > Any reason why we shouldn't remove this hacky solution? > >> > > > >> > > Pedro. > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >
