TensorLayer 1.8.0rc

This is a pre-release version. We recommend users to update and report bugs or issues.

Features

• Experimentally support the Command-Line-Interface (CLI) module. (@luomai @lgarithm)
  • Support cli: tl train which can bootstrap a GPU/CPU parallel training job.
• Use logging instead of print() to output logs. (by @luomai @lgarithm)
• Update dropout implementation of RNN layers (by @nebulaV)

APIs

• Simplify DeformableConv2dLayer into DeformableConv2d (by @zsdonghao)
• Merge tl.ops into tl.utils (by @luomai)
• DeConv2d not longer require out_size for TensorFlow 1.3+ (by @zsdonghao)

Others

• Address codebase issues suggested by codacy (by @luomai @zsdonghao @lgarithm)
• Optimize the layers folder structure. (by @zsdonghao @luomai)
• Many documentation fixes and improvements (by @zsdonghao @luomai @lgarithm)
• Mini contribution guide in 5 lines. (by @lgarithm @luomai)
• Setup many CI tests. (@lgarithm @luomai)