Severe outdated-ness causing problems ... Is FreeDiscovery viable as Free Open Source Software

[richlysakowski]

Just stumbled upon this package. Sorry for the late "free discovery", but in reading the details and documentation, I see that this is so old, it will not compile or build with current versions of Python, scikit-learn, numpy and pandas.

numpy>=1.10.1
scipy>=0.16.1
pandas>=0.19.0
scikit-learn>=0.19.1

The FOSS version looks abandoned. There is a commercial business built

The conda package is ancient, last updated 4.5 years ago.

License: BSD-3-Clause
Home: https://github.com/FreeDiscovery/FreeDiscovery
Development: https://github.com/FreeDiscovery/FreeDiscovery
Documentation: https://freediscovery.github.io/doc/stable/
47355 total downloads
Last upload: 4 years and 5 months ago

[dagr1234]

Hi, not sure what to tell you — funding ran out and the development team had to move on. I figured leaving it out there might be of some us to seme people. I suspect it wouldn’t be much work to get it back up and running. DG

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On Dec 27, 2022, at 8:21 PM, Rich Lysakowski ***@***.***> wrote: Just stumbled upon this package. Sorry for the late "free discovery", but in reading the details and documentation, I see that this is so old, it will not compile or build with current versions of Python, scikit-learn, numpy and pandas. numpy>=1.10.1 scipy>=0.16.1 pandas>=0.19.0 scikit-learn>=0.19.1 The FOSS version looks abandoned. There is a commercial business built The conda package is ancient, last updated 4.5 years ago. License: BSD-3-Clause <http://opensource.org/search/node/BSD-3-Clause> Home: https://github.com/FreeDiscovery/FreeDiscovery <https://github.com/FreeDiscovery/FreeDiscovery> Development: https://github.com/FreeDiscovery/FreeDiscovery <https://github.com/FreeDiscovery/FreeDiscovery> Documentation: https://freediscovery.github.io/doc/stable/ <https://freediscovery.github.io/doc/stable/> 47355 total downloads Last upload: 4 years and 5 months ago — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#201>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABS3NCLH63HYFH3C6VGYUH3WPOIY5ANCNFSM6AAAAAATK24AIQ>. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.