Merge pull request #541 from NatLibFi/remove-maui-and-vw-backends

Remove Maui and Vowpal Wabbit multi backends

.github/workflows/python-package.yml

@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ jobs:
         # For Python 3.6
         # - voikko and pycld3 dependencies
         if [[ ${{ matrix.python-version }} == '3.6' ]]; then python -m pip install .[voikko,pycld3]; fi
-        # Install the optional VowpalWabbit dependency for Python 3.6
-        if [[ ${{ matrix.python-version }} == '3.6' ]]; then pip install .[vw]; fi
 
     - name: Lint with flake8
       run: |

Dockerfile

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ RUN pip install --upgrade pip --no-cache-dir
 
 # Install all optional dependencies:
 COPY setup.py README.md LICENSE.txt projects.cfg.dist /Annif/
-RUN pip install .[dev,voikko,pycld3,fasttext,nn,omikuji,vw,yake] --no-cache-dir
+RUN pip install .[dev,voikko,pycld3,fasttext,nn,omikuji,yake] --no-cache-dir
 
 # Download nltk data (handle occasional timeout in with 3 tries):
 RUN for i in 1 2 3; do python -m nltk.downloader punkt -d /usr/share/nltk_data && break || sleep 1; done

annif/backend/__init__.py

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 from . import http
 from . import tfidf
 from . import pav
-from . import maui
 from . import stwfsa
 from . import mllm
 from . import svc
@@ -31,7 +30,6 @@ def get_backend(backend_id):
 register_backend(http.HTTPBackend)
 register_backend(tfidf.TFIDFBackend)
 register_backend(pav.PAVBackend)
-register_backend(maui.MauiBackend)
 register_backend(stwfsa.StwfsaBackend)
 register_backend(mllm.MLLMBackend)
 register_backend(svc.SVCBackend)
@@ -43,13 +41,6 @@ def get_backend(backend_id):
 except ImportError:
     annif.logger.debug("fastText not available, not enabling fasttext backend")
 
-try:
-    from . import vw_multi
-    register_backend(vw_multi.VWMultiBackend)
-except ImportError:
-    annif.logger.debug("vowpalwabbit not available, not enabling " +
-                       "vw_multi backend")
-
 try:
     from . import nn_ensemble
     register_backend(nn_ensemble.NNEnsembleBackend)