The setup.py is rewritten. This new script uses only Python code and provide customized
implementation of setuptools commands. This way users can run most of setuptools commands
just like any other Python libraries.
* Remove setup_pip.py
* Remove soft links.
* Define customized commands.
* Remove shell script.
* Remove makefile script.
* Update the doc for building from source.
* Fixed DLL name on Windows in ``xgboost.libpath``
* Added support for OS X to ``xgboost.libpath``
* Use .dylib for shared library on OS X
This does not affect the JNI library, because it is not trully
cross-platform in the Makefile-build anyway.
* Fix various typos
* Add override to functions that are overridden
gcc gives warnings about functions that are being overridden by not
being marked as oveirridden. This fixes it.
* Use bst_float consistently
Use bst_float for all the variables that involve weight,
leaf value, gradient, hessian, gain, loss_chg, predictions,
base_margin, feature values.
In some cases, when due to additions and so on the value can
take a larger value, double is used.
This ensures that type conversions are minimal and reduces loss of
precision.
Currently xgboost can only be installed by running:
python setup.py install
Now it can be packaged (in binary form) as a wheel and installed like:
pip install xgboost-0.6-py2-none-any.whl
distutils and wheel install `data_files` differently than setuptools.
setuptools will install the `data_files` in the package directory whereas the
others install it in `sys.prefix`. By adding `sys.prefix` to the list of
directories to check for the shared library, xgboost can now be distributed as
a wheel.
Currently `pip install xgboost` will raise traceback like this
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-IAdqYE/xgboost/setup.py", line 20, in <module>
import xgboost
File "./xgboost/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from .core import DMatrix, Booster
File "./xgboost/core.py", line 12, in <module>
import numpy as np
ImportError: No module named numpy
```
We should avoid importing numpy in setup.py and let pip install numpy and scipy automatically.
That's what `install_requires` for.
