Ricardo Wurmus writes: > This patch series adds a package for TensorFlow (without GPU support). > I don’t know how useful this is because it just provides a single 180+MB > statically linked archive (and header files). It is only the “core” > part of TensorFlow. > > The problem here is that the build system is Bazel, which cannot easily > be built from source. Bazel bundles 60+ third-party Java packages, some > of which are very complex and are very difficult to package. TensorFlow > comes with an unsupported Makefile that builds a single statically > linked library of only the core parts. That’s what this package > provides. > > Note that TensorFlow 1.8 has been released a few days ago. This package > only adds version 1.7. That's still amazing. I thought about packaging bazel and looked into the nix package[1]. The package definition from nix isn't very long, but requires patches. I dropped the matter since I'm not familiar with java. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel