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Name conflicts for mamba

Open jbednar opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

This looks like a cool project, but the name seems problematic because of the pre-existing package manager Mamba. The Mamba SSM installation instructions currently suggest installing with pip, but Mamba SSM could very soon be available as a conda package, and then you'll have instructions like mamba install mamba-ssm, which seems very, very confusing!

jbednar avatar Dec 04 '23 21:12 jbednar

Indeed, mamba is reserved on PyPi for yet a different mamba: https://pypi.org/project/mamba/

mcg1969 avatar Dec 04 '23 21:12 mcg1969

There also is a Llama2 fine tune called mamba: https://huggingface.co/CobraMamba

trap20 avatar Dec 04 '23 22:12 trap20

To be fair! The official Python name of this package is mamba_ssm https://pypi.org/project/mamba-ssm/

So I think we're good from a pip and conda perspective!

mcg1969 avatar Dec 04 '23 22:12 mcg1969

If it's consistently called "Mamba SSM", there's no problem! But the name of this repo, its readme, and the announcement all just use Mamba, so I'd bet lots of people will try to "pip install mamba".

jbednar avatar Dec 05 '23 02:12 jbednar

Seems like Gemini can't tell the two projects apart (see the generated github link)

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From: https://twitter.com/mvpatel2000/status/1732496433318592842

josejg avatar Dec 07 '23 17:12 josejg