I have updated the pycuda-git package in Arch Linux to reflect the change. It appears to work fine here.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Andreas Klöckner <li...@informa.tiker.net>wrote: > Hi all, > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is relevant to you if you are using Python 2.6.3 and you are getting > errors of the sort: > > "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools-0.6c9- > py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/build_ext.py", > line 85, in get_ext_filename > KeyError: '_cl' > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It seems Python 2.6.3 broke every C/C++ extension on the planet that was > shipped using setuptools (which includes PyCUDA, PyOpenCL, and many more of > my > packages.) Thanks for your patience as I've worked through this mess, and > to > both Allan and Christine, I'm sorry you've had to deal with this, and > thanks > to Allan for pointing me in the right direction. > > To make a long story short, I've switched my packages (including PyCUDA) to > use distribute instead of setuptools. All these changes are now in git. I'm > not sure this will help if a 2.6.3 user already has setuptools installed, > but > I hope it will at least not make any other case worse. All in all, this > seems > like the least bad option given that I expect distribute to be "the way of > the > future". > > Before I unleash this change full-scale, I would like it to get some > testing. > For this purpose, I've created a PyCUDA release candidate package, here: > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycuda/0.93.1rc1 > > PLEASE TEST THIS, and speak up if you do--both positive and negative > comments > are much appreciated. > > Andreas > > PS: Once I have reasonable confirmation that this works for PyCUDA, I'll > also > release updated versions of PyOpenCL, meshpy, boostmpi, pyublas, .... The > relevant changes are *already in git* if you'd like to try them now. > > PPS: Deciding in favor of distribute and against the promised setuptools > update was based on two factors: > - Primarily, distribute makes a fix for the 2.6.3 issue available *now*. > - Secondarily, I personally disliked the behavior of PJE, the author of > setuptools, in response to the current mess. > > _______________________________________________ > PyCUDA mailing list > PyCUDA@tiker.net > http://tiker.net/mailman/listinfo/pycuda_tiker.net > >
_______________________________________________ PyCUDA mailing list PyCUDA@tiker.net http://tiker.net/mailman/listinfo/pycuda_tiker.net
