prototype "cm init" to check some system deps (git, wget) and pull cm4mlops repo

[gfursin]

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[gfursin]

I implemented this functionality. @arjunsuresh and @anandhu-eng - can you please check that it works on your side? We can then discuss how to update the docs to keep the installation clean ... Thanks!

[arjunsuresh]

Hi @gfursin I added cm init to this github action. It works fine on Ubuntu but fails on Windows. Is this expected?

[gfursin]

Hmm, thank you for noting - let me check.

[gfursin]

Oh, yes, I see the problem. We should not check wget.exe in "cm init" on Windows since it is added/used via cm scripts ... At this moment "cm init" fails on Windows because wget is not available ;) ...

[gfursin]

I have tested cm init in various projects - it seems to be working fine and I can capture and process installation errors via CM interface.

@arjunsuresh - may I ask you to update the docs at https://docs.mlcommons.org/inference/install/#__tabbed_1_1 to use pip install cmind && cm init as default, please?

In the future, we may be extending cm init with other repositories that are not necessarily related to cm4mlops ...

Thanks a lot!

[arjunsuresh]

Hi @gfursin For MLPerf run support especially for new users the current cm4mlops package is working really well and so far we have had no issues raised regarding this. We also have the cm init option as an alternative for those doing development work. I don't think we should change the default setting and invite more support queries.

Also, can you please add MLCommons to the cmind pypi package owner list? Initially we had to create cm4mlops package when we were not able to do a critical cmind release when you were offline.

[gfursin]

Sure, let's keep two methods - I have MLPerf users that prefer original installation to have a control over which CM repositories they initialize and use - they can now choose whatever is better for them.