Please clarify scope of this repository

[rickardp]

I just noticed that all the portability PRs were closed and the main branch was forced pushed to some other branch yesterday. @TimDettmers From issue #252:

[...] It would be good to hear from the maintainers that they are at all interested in making this package cross-platform. It is very much CUDA focused at the moment.

It seems there are a few possible contributors who could help with ensuring portability, but I believe @TimDettmers you are the sole maintainer of this repository and it is your decision how portable you want this library to be. I take the closing of the PRs as kind of statement you are not interested in supporting Windows/macOS here (as well as no AMD GPUs etc)? If you find some time, maybe just clarifying this would be good.

As a person who is interested in the portable version of the code, I would obviously prefer it we could collaborate on a port here, but if you are not interested it is totally understandable, and I'll just go ahead breaking out the stuff I need to a new library and porting it to M1 (which I already started BTW). @TheStoneMX, @acpopescu and others if you are interested on collaborating on this I'm very open to this, just know it's not my day job to work with this :)

[AiswaryaSrinivas]

Hi @rickardp , Just wanted to check, if a library that supports macOs would be released any time soon?? It would be great to have support for Apple Silicon

[deep-pipeline]

@TimDettmers just a quick request if you might answer @rickardp message above from a month ago please.

As an onlooker, exploring the repository to find out what the situation is w.r.t. Apple Silicon support, I too am surprised by the closure, without comment, of the portability PR #252 offered by a contributor and wonder if you might make a formal comment please here so anyone finding this comment thread knows your views explicitly.

Thanks in advance.

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