Xgboost: PLEASE UPDATE PYTHON-PACKAGE UNDER PyPI

Created on 14 Mar 2016 · 4Comments · Source: dmlc/xgboost

There have been several helpful and functional updates during the python-package.However,the pip version is just a little out-of-date.
For instance,I have been eager for the implementation of FEATURE_IMPORTANCE for a long time but I can only copy the relevant codes from /python-package/xgboost/sklearn.py and manually update the local xgboost-lib.

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nicoJiang

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will do it when I get back, and there will be a wheels installation too, hopefully

phunterlau on 14 Mar 2016

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will do it when I get back, and there will be a wheels installation too, hopefully

phunterlau on 14 Mar 2016

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This would be very helpful. I'm eagerly awaiting an update as it would make my life much easier.

bryan-woods on 23 Mar 2016

@bryan-woods some progress and thoughts: the old PyPI installation builds source from scratch which might not be a good idea for the current xgboost structure, since cmake and openMP support can cause problems on different platforms, e.g. Mac's system clang OpenMP issue, cmake's ar issues on Mac etc, so I am experimenting an wheels-only solution with static link pre-compiled lib for major platforms, and stop supporting the old PyPI installation from scratch. It would be a good chance to include windows platform pre-compiled libs, if we can have some one maintaining the windows binary package.

phunterlau on 23 Mar 2016

@phunterlau Thank you for your contribution of this implementation! Did you happen to make any progress on re-publishing it on PyPi (or similar)? I am currently using the PyPi installation in a project and an update on PyPi would be an easy fix to some issues I have.