This portemanteau branch was aimed at the modernization of the MLDB codebase and includes the following:
Move from Python 2 to Python 3
Updates to run on Ubuntu 18.04 while maintaining compatibility with ubuntu 16.04
Major refactoring to move MLDB towards a more modular structure and eventually separate plugins entirely from the main tree
Major compile time and test run time improvements; it's now quite feasible to develop MLDB on a 2013 era laptop and it compiles and runs tests in around 5 minutes on a modern server machine
Disabling of the Tensorflow, MongoDB and Azure plugins for now, with a view to them eventually becoming separate plugins
A complete overhaul of the Python support, fixing numerous GIL locking and re-entrancy bugs
Removal of magic objects injected into the Python interpreter; MLDB is now accessed using from mldb import mldb
Ability to import mldb from a pure Python script, which will embed MLDB within the Python instance without code changes. This is an important step to having MLDB able to be distributed by pip
Numerous test fixes and bug fixes
MLDB now uses C++17 and requires G++ 6+ or clang 6 to compile
Compilation fixes for gcc 7 and gcc8
Numerous code standardizations to use C++17 features instead of earlier alternatives where possible
Numerous decoupling of internal and external interfaces
Much dead code removed
Much smaller boost footprint in the code
Sensor support in a plugin, with skeleton audio and video sensors
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This portemanteau branch was aimed at the modernization of the MLDB codebase and includes the following:
from mldb import mldb