[Neurodebian-devel] nipype and python-pydot incompatibility

[Alex Waite]

> python-pydotplus provides its own pydotplus module

Ok, so it's as I suspected.

> nipype seems to be not using any of them directly:
> 
> $> git grep pydot
> [snip]
Yeah... I really should have dug deeper.

> and overall the question is more for upstream: 
> https://github.com/nipy/nipype/issues/2494
Yeah, my bad. I jumped to the assumption that it was a packaging 
problem. And the more I think about it, the situation I was imagining, 
still would have been an upstream issue. :-/

In any case, thank for the response and for opening the upstream bug.

> even disregarding either backport of pydot works out I think I should
> remove listing of those in info.py altogether so tools do not crash when pydot,
> needed only for one specific option/use-case is not available

Completely agree.

Thanks again.

---Alex