the final piece (#760)

Author: casper-hansen

README.md

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 # News: The vLLM project has fully adopted AutoAWQ
 
-AutoAWQ is being deprecated and archived because of this. It is no secret that maintaining a project such as AutoAWQ that has 2+ million downloads, 7000+ models on Huggingface, and 2.1k stars is hard for a solo developer who is doing this in their free time.
+It is no secret that maintaining a project such as AutoAWQ that has 2+ million downloads, 7000+ models on Huggingface, and 2.1k stars is hard for a solo developer who is doing this in their free time.
 
-- vLLM Compressor now supports AutoAWQ: https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor
+Important Notice:
+- AutoAWQ is officially deprecated and will no longer be maintained.
+- The last tested configuration used Torch 2.6.0 and Transformers 4.51.3.
+- If future versions of Transformers break AutoAWQ compatibility, please report the issue to the Transformers project.
+
+Alternative:
+- AutoAWQ has been adopted by the vLLM Project: https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor
 - MLX-LM now supports AWQ for Mac devices: http://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-lm
 
+For further inquiries, feel free to reach out:
+- X: https://x.com/casper_hansen_
+- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casper-hansen-804005170/
+
 # AutoAWQ
 
 <p align="center">

awq/__init__.py

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-__version__ = "0.2.8"
-from awq.models.auto import AutoAWQForCausalLM
+import warnings
+
+warnings.simplefilter("default", DeprecationWarning)
+
+_FINAL_DEV_MESSAGE = """
+I have left this message as the final dev message to help you transition.
+
+Important Notice:
+- AutoAWQ is officially deprecated and will no longer be maintained.
+- The last tested configuration used Torch 2.6.0 and Transformers 4.51.3.
+- If future versions of Transformers break AutoAWQ compatibility, please report the issue to the Transformers project.
+
+Alternative:
+- AutoAWQ has been adopted by the vLLM Project: https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor
+
+For further inquiries, feel free to reach out:
+- X: https://x.com/casper_hansen_
+- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casper-hansen-804005170/
+"""
+
+warnings.warn(_FINAL_DEV_MESSAGE, category=DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=1)
+
+__version__ = "0.2.9"
+from awq.models.auto import AutoAWQForCausalLM

scripts/download_wheels.sh

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 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Set variables
-AWQ_VERSION="0.2.8"
+AWQ_VERSION="0.2.9"
 RELEASE_URL="https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ/archive/refs/tags/v${AWQ_VERSION}.tar.gz"
 
 # Create a directory to download the wheels

setup.py

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 from pathlib import Path
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-AUTOAWQ_VERSION = "0.2.8"
+AUTOAWQ_VERSION = "0.2.9"
 
 common_setup_kwargs = {
     "version": AUTOAWQ_VERSION,