preparing things for first beta release

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+
+
+## [0.0.1] - 2016-06-14
 ### Added
+- A function to type check the arguments to the kernel
+- Example (convolution) that tunes the number of streams 
 - Device interface to C functions, for tuning host code
 - Correctness checks for kernels during tuning
 - Function for running a single kernel instance

kernel_tuner/interface.py

@@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ def run_kernel(kernel_name, kernel_string, problem_size, arguments,
     #move data to the GPU and compile the kernel
     lang = _detect_language(lang, kernel_string)
     dev = _get_device_interface(lang, device)
+    _check_argument_list(arguments)
     gpu_args = dev.ready_argument_list(arguments)
 
     #retrieve the run configuration, compile, and run the kernel

setup.py

@@ -11,13 +11,24 @@ def read(fname):
     author_email = "b.vanwerkhoven@esciencecenter.nl",
     description = ("A simple CUDA kernel tuner in Python"),
     license = "Apache 2.0",
-    keywords = "auto-tuning pycuda cuda gpu",
+    keywords = "auto-tuning gpu pycuda cuda pyopencl opencl",
     url = "http://benvanwerkhoven.github.io/kernel_tuner/",
     packages=['kernel_tuner'],
     long_description=read('README.md'),
     classifiers=[
+        'Environment :: Console',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
+        'Intended Audience :: Education',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
+        'Natural Language :: English',
+        'Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
+        'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering',
+        'Topic :: Software Development',
         'Topic :: System :: Distributed Computing',
-        'Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha',
+        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
     ],
 )
 

test/test_interface.py

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def test_check_argument_list1():
     except TypeError as e:
         print(str(e))
         assert "at position 1" in str(e)
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         print("Expected a TypeError to be raised")
         assert False