[Neurodebian-devel] nipype and python-pydot incompatibility

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Alex Waite wrote:

> > 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.

For now just uploaded backport of pydot for older debian/ubuntus so
should resolve that way for now (didn't check though)

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