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Provide a high level Dataset class for easy use.

Categorical feature support (#108)

1. merge python-package
2. add dump model to json
3. fix bugs
4. clean code with pylint
5. update python examples

* RAII for utils, application and c_api(partical)

* raii for class in include folder

* raii for application and boosting

* raii for dataset and dataset loader

* raii for dense bin and parser

* RAII refactor for almost all classes

* RAII for c_api

* clean code

* refine repeated code

* Decouple the "sigmoid" between objective and boosting.

* change std::vector<bool> back to std::vector<char> due to concurrence problem

* slight reduce some memory cost

add DART: Dropouts meet Multiple Additive Regression Trees (#67)

Packages that parse LightGBM’s logs will require minor changes to
parsing logic to work correctly.

support init_score for multiclass classification (#62)

Support multiclass classification (#53)

* a python regression example

* add early-stopping

* fix bugs

* remove not needed files

* update easy-stopping; fix warnings; add alias

* add comments; remove useless line

* change code order

* change Print to PrintAndGetLoss: return loss

* change comment; add bracket

* change return type of PredictLeafIndex in boosting.h

* move string cast into lambda function

* move if-then outside predict_fun

* a python regression example

* add early-stopping

* fix bugs

* remove not needed files