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0 pointsaseipp9y ago0 comments

This is a bit unfortunate, in a real sense. I mean, I already build enough software, so I'm not sad on missing out. But here's the thing: TensorFlow actually installed great on Windows and it took less than 10 minutes to get running, once I had Python3 installed, even with GPU support. Even worked awesome in VS Code, out of the box, with autocomplete in the python mode. Even a baby like me got started easily.

But it's a bit disappointing to hear that the build system is something of a nightmare, if I ever wanted to contribute myself. There's always plenty of things to help with, I don't care about the cutting edge of machine learning (I'm happy to submit docs, examples, etc)... Then again, the TF people can't just nerd around on their build system, for dorks like me to maybe write some patches every once in a while. Always great to make it easier, though.

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jacquesm9y ago

For me the issue with such things is not so much the hassle as much as it is long term stability of an environment that I come to depend on. If I can't reproduce it from archived sources then there is a good chance that at some point in the future my stuff will suddenly and in-explicably stop working after some minor system update.

And python has a huge problem with this anyway. (Or, to put it probably more accurately, I have a huge problem with python in this way, historically my python code has had a relatively short shelf life compared to my C code (or even my PHP code)).

steren9y ago

Hi, I am working on Bazel, the build tool used by Tensorflow.

Could you please share in more details the problems you encountered with Bazel?

If you have specific questions, I encourage you to post on StackOverflow with the bazel and tensorflow tags, both the Bazel and Tensorflow teams are monitoring and answering questions there.

jorgemf9y ago

> But it's a bit disappointing to hear that the build system is something of a nightmare

I know... I am building it for TensorFlow Serving and it is pain in the ass. I will help but I have no idea how to do it, only find workarounds to compile specific commits.

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