[Neurodebian-users] psychopy package update

[yoh at onerussian.com]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, Todd wrote:

>    Hi Yaroslav,
>    That is great!  I am using Bionic.  My lab is sticking with LTS releases.

oh well... the blow wasn't too long to wait:  attempt to backport
python-questplus (needed by psychopy now) went in flames of tests failures...
(although quite uniform, so fix might be trivial).  not sure I would have
time to troubleshoot it further.  If someone manages to provide a patch to have
it backported - I will look into the next steps

pyglet also failed for bionic (18.04) but was ok for debians and 19.04

So, unfortunately, no backports of psychopy, at least not in the upcoming days.

as for ubuntu LTS in general:

http://neuro.debian.net/faq.html

Debian, Debian, Debian – What about Ubuntu?

NeuroDebian offers backported binary packages for recent Ubuntu releases whenever possible. However, since Ubuntu (like many other derivatives) uses Debian as its foundation, it is more efficient to spend time maintaining packages in Debian, instead of having to directly contribute to countless child-distributions. After the appearance of new packages in Debian, Ubuntu typically synchronizes them quickly and they become available in the Ubuntu universe – a repository of Debian packages rebuilt for a particular Ubuntu release. We are not constantly rebuilding of all available NeuroDebian packages for new Ubuntu releases. Therefore, you might find some packages temporarily being available for older Ubuntu releases only – until the point when a new package version is made and gets built for all currently supported releases.

>    Do you know if their version is built with psychtoolbox support?

didn't look
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