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<rekado>now moving on to tensorflow 2.14

<civodul>wo0t! brave & fearless!

<civodul>i can’t see where it’s “cheating”

<civodul>oh, got it

<rekado>lots of bundled jars

<civodul>and where’s source code injected?

<rekado>and also bundled third-party source code

<rekado>bazel is special because it includes a bunch of zip files for the source code

<rekado>the gross source code fetching via bazel happens in downstream packages such as jaxlib

<rekado>every bazel-using package will need something like that

<rekado>I’ll eventually turn this into a bazel-build-system once I have finished building tensorflow

<rekado>(then I’ll know what features should be generic and which are just for jaxlib)

<rekado>later I’ll also have to build all the CUDA-enabled variants of these packages for guix-science-nonfree. Not looking forward to that.

<civodul>python-jaxlib is a bit intimidating

<rekado>I find it annoying that I can’t get tensorflow to use the already built XLA from jax.

<rekado>it insist on building everything from scratch.

<rekado>same for that custom llvm it bundles

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<civodul>we’re going to have to double the capacity of guix.bordeaux.inria.fr :-)

<rekado>this is like these windows progress bars

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<rekado>and that’s just libtensorflow without any of the Python bits

<rekado>(i.e. it’s essentially useless)

<rekado>tensorflow is more difficult to package.

<rekado>it brings its own binary of Python and insists on using pip install as part of the configuration process.

<rekado>ACTION shudders

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