pypy compatibility

[mfiers]

(uncertain if this is even possible)

It would be nice if this could be made compatible with pypy - which does not support getrefcount.

I'm trying to use gitpython/gitdb with pyp.

Thanks
Mark

[Byron]

Thanks for the information.

As getrefcount() caused and is causing a lot of troubles, as it appears to be somewhat unpredictable, I will have to remove it and implement an own refcounting mechanism. The maintenance is already scheduled, and should (ideally) happen within this month.

Cheers,
Sebastian

[mfiers]

Thanks - I'll keep my eyes open..

[brondsem]

Any updates on this? Just for reference, here's what I get when I try to install smmap with pypi

  Downloading/unpacking smmap==0.8.1 (from -r requirements-common.txt (line 59))
  Downloading smmap-0.8.1.tar.gz
  Running setup.py egg_info for package smmap
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "app_main.py", line 51, in run_toplevel
      File "app_main.py", line 534, in run_it
      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
      File "/Users/brondsem/sf/pypy_allura_venv/build/smmap/setup.py", line 11, in <module>
        import smmap
      File "smmap/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
        from mman import *
      File "smmap/mman.py", line 2, in <module>
        from util import (
      File "smmap/util.py", line 15, in <module>
        from sys import getrefcount
    ImportError: cannot import name 'getrefcount'```

[Byron]

As this happens during install, one could possibly just add a quick-fix which catches this import or replaces it by some dummy method. Or one could check the package initialization, and delay importing of symbols even longer.

However, do you think its feasible for you to use easy_install ? I believe its not that sandboxed, so installation should work there.

[vicalejuri]

Any updates on this?

I'm confused, if i just comment the getrefcount import on the setup, will it still works?

MapRegion (smmap/util.py) seems to natively depend on it (client_count function). Any
other way of achieving the same on pypy ?

Thanks

[alex]

Is there any way I could help out with this? I'd love to be able to use this on PyPy.

[msabramo]

#9 was merged. This at least makes it possible to install smmap on PyPy. The app that I am using (an internal app that uses GitPython) actually passes all its tests now in PyPy.

Since this is just delaying the import, certain usages will still no doubt fail. Perhaps @alex can suggest an alternative.

[gdude2002]

This still doesn't build with pip and pypy, as far as I can tell: https://travis-ci.org/UltrosBot/Ultros/jobs/38021528

Any ideas?

EDIT: Our requirements.txt is here: https://github.com/UltrosBot/Ultros/blob/master/requirements.txt

[msabramo]

@gdude2002: Try editing yourrequirements.txt so that it has:

git@github.com:Byron/smmap

That way you get the code in #9. The latest smmap on PyPI, smmap 0.8.2, is from January of 2012, so it wouldn't have this fix.

[Byron]

The project was updated on pypi, finally !