<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Thanks Ken.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Actually I checked brew and they haven't got a formula for TensorFlow (at least at the moment).</div> <div id="bloop_sign_1513634626825751040" class="bloop_sign"><br></div><p class="airmail_on">On 18 December 2017 at 22:57:42, Cunningham Ken (<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div></div><div>
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FYI, I recall homebrew has tensorflow, so you might get some hints
looking at their formula.
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<div>Marius was taking this on a few months ago as well, so might
have some thoughts.</div>
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<div>On 2017-12-18, at 1:52 PM, Enrico Maria Crisostomo
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Hi,</span></div>
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I’m trying to create a port for TensorFlow and I have already
accumulated quite a number of doubts in just a couple of hours I've
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First of all, I realised (late) that TensorFlow (and some of its
dependencies) is built as a wheel package (a .whl file), and as
such it gets uploaded to the Python Package Index: <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tensorflow/1.4.1" style="font-family:Menlo,Arial">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tensorflow/1.4.1</a>.
whl files are meant to be installed with pip, so my current
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You can see the PR here: <a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1131" style="font-family:Menlo,Arial">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1131</a></span></div>
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The port apparently work, but I'd like to submit this port for
review for the following reasons:</span></div>
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* I'm not sure we should install a whl file this way,
invoking `pip`.</span></div>
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* I had to redefine `master_sites` and `checksums` for each
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* I had to redefine the `extract` properties to skip
extraction and just copy the downloaded file into
`${worksrcpath}`:</span></div>
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* Is there a better idiom to refer to the
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* Is there a better idiom to refer to the Python site
packages directory in the staging area?</span></div>
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${destroot}${python.pkgd}</span></div>
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Finally, I'm wondering whether this is a good idea at all.
I've grep-ed the ports and I saw no other whl file installed this
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If you can have a look at the PR I will appreciate any feedback and
insight.</span></div>
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Cheers,</span></div>
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