This shit is broke. We should mark it broke, or fix it.
to be pedantic: Dependencies in the torch distribution are already marked as broken. One cannot currently build a top level torch derivation as it's deps are marked broken.
Does this constitute being marked broken already? Not sure.
Does being marked broken for such a long time mean we should remove it? I think so.
I mentioned this issue last week in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/56398#issuecomment-542085717. It could
be reimplemented by using the new architecture.
Not only is it broken, it's completely unmaintained and dead upstream:
https://github.com/torch/torch7#development-status
As of 2019, the Torch-7 community is close to non-existent.
It appears that the useful bits have been ported over to pytorch, and the rest left to rot. Let's remove the remains.
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I mentioned this issue last week in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/56398#issuecomment-542085717. It could
be reimplemented by using the new architecture.