03:51 < kartikdutt18Gitt> Hi @birm, Yes currently there 2 similar PR open and since one of them was about a year old with no recent commits, I sent another PR as I think I made more headway.

03:53 < kartikdutt18Gitt> *thought

09:51 < LakshyaOjhaGitte> Hi Everyone , I am Lakshya Ojha and I am currently a 3rd Year undergrad student at Delhi Technological University. I have been going through the code base for the couple of weeks and I would love to contribute to this organization.

09:52 < kartikdutt18Gitt> Hi @ojhalakshya, You should check out https://www.mlpack.org/community.html and https://www.mlpack.org/gsoc.html to get started.

10:31 < Param-29Gitter[m> Hello , I have made some changes in the codebase and i want to validate it before opening a PR. how do I do that..?

10:32 < HimanshuPathakGi> First you should try to build your changes

10:33 < Param-29Gitter[m> using make and make install?

10:33 < HimanshuPathakGi> locally

10:33 < HimanshuPathakGi> yse

10:34 < HimanshuPathakGi> *yes

10:34 < Param-29Gitter[m> and is there a way to make a single file?

10:35 < HimanshuPathakGi> You can skip building tests and cli and binding etc

10:36 < HimanshuPathakGi> But building single file is not possible

10:36 < Nakul[m]> > and is there a way to make a single file?

10:36 < Nakul[m]> you can do something like ```make your target```

10:37 < HimanshuPathakGi> (edited) But building single file is not possible => You can skip building tests and cli and python binding etc

10:37 < Param-29Gitter[m> @matrixbot so will make filename.hpp work?

10:38 < Nakul[m]> no in cmake you set your target and only that target you can make .

10:38 < Nakul[m]> can you tell where you made changes

10:39 < Param-29Gitter[m> in gini_gain.hpp

10:56 < Nakul[m]> i can't find target for this.ther is target for decision tree but not for this zoq i think for new cmake we should also consider to add target for all of the missing files

11:03 < Param-29Gitter[m> I ran make and sudo make install command to re-install mlpack. also what does bin/mlpack_test does? @matrixbot

11:05 < Nakul[m]> It builds all the tests file

11:06 < Nakul[m]> It will run all tests I will suggest you to run only those test that you have changed

11:07 < Param-29Gitter[m> So how should i check if the changes i made to the code actually work fine?

11:07 < Nakul[m]> Something like ```bin/mlpack_test -t your test suits```

11:12 < Param-29Gitter[m> so for gini-gain (bin/mlpack_test -t mlpack_decision_tree) ?

11:22 < Nakul[m]> ```bin/mlpack_test -t DecisionTreeTest```

11:23 < Nakul[m]> the name of test suits you can find in test files

11:30 < Param-29Gitter[m> i didnt understand. where will i find name of test suits?

11:35 < Nakul[m]> you can see decision_tree_test.cpp where you file find ```BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE`` by running this you will run all the test. if you want just some cases to run you can mention by like ```bin/mlpack_test -t DecisionTreeTest/GiniGainPerfectTest```

11:36 < Nakul[m]> i would suggest to spend some time with boost documentation if you have more doubts : )

12:16 < Param-29Gitter[m> Yes.. thanks :)

20:45 < Nakul[m]> Hey @rcurtin:matrix.org @zoq can we define some set of standard for cmake style I think we are missing that.or can you recommend some best style that we should follow?

20:49 < Nakul[m]> I found this https://github.com/Bagira80/More-Modern-CMake

20:49 < Nakul[m]> I think following such kind of coding style is highly scalable.i mean define everything in its meta file keep different stuff in different files.

20:50 < Nakul[m]> Let me know what you think :)