Hi all, I wanted to touch base on this packaging/versioning topic.
I think it would be beneficial for our users to get the packages directly from pypi rather than hosting them somewhere else. It would be great so that people can set tlcpack as dependencies on their workflows.
Additionally, I think it would be great if we could keep a history of nightly packages so that users’ environments are reproducible. At the moment, if somebody notices an issue with a package, it is very hard to go an rebuild that package so that the issue can be reproduced.
With regards to pypi repository, I noticed we had a interaction with pypa in past: https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support/issues/594.
As we have ongoing discussions to increase the frequency of releases (see Release Planning - Reviewing our Tracking Issues), for the benefit of our users, I think it would be great to improve the tlcpack tooling so that we can streamline publishing on pypi.
So, I think there are a few actions here:
- Re-engage with pypa, in order to get adequate quota to host the packages
- Create the necessary community-owned credentials so that we can publish packages on pypi
- Improve tooling on tlcpack so that it is able to publish packages on pypi. I can start this one, but probably will need from others to fix issues and maintain this. I’ll raise the appropriate tickets on https://github.com/tlc-pack/tlcpack
- Amend TVM release process so that we guarantee that tlcpack gets some attention as well?
cc @tqchen @haichen @areusch @Mousius @ramana-arm for comments.