You wrote:
fastai v2 only works with the upcoming 2020 version of the course. It won’t work with any previous version.
I am struggeling a bit with your approach: I found your great video tutorials and repository some weeks ago. It was very easy for me to install the recent version fastai-1.0.61 on a Windows computer and run the notebooks from the “example” folder. Very nice. I like your approach to make coding available to everyone as quickly and easily as possible.
But: I tried to get into the notebooks from your “courses” folder, but these require fastai-0.7. Unfortunately , these require fastai-0.7 and after some research here and there I found that lots of people are struggeling with getting this older fastai-0.7 installed and running, because fastai-1.0.61 is already available. Thanks for leaving the short message [00-DO-NOT-USE-WITH-FASTAI-1.0.x.txt] in the “courses” folder.
Now you are saying, that with fastai-2 the same will happen again:
fastai v2 only works with the upcoming 2020 version of the course. It won’t work with any previous version.
I really find this a bit frustrating, because drifting deeper and deeper in installation routines is exaclty what I don´t like. So sad that the notebooks in the “course” folder don’t work and are useless for me, because they require fastai-0.7. So sad, that the current notebooks seem not to work in near future once fastai-2 is out there.
Why aren’t these notebooks “backward” compatible? And if a company decides to use your fastai-library for production: would they have to change also their current notebooks each time when there is a new fastai-release?