[pymvpa] PyMVPA 0.5: Change is coming and snapshots are available

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

And those who want to keep the 0.4.x version available system-wide
(installed from packages) but still want to explore the shiny 0.5
development branch, following 4 steps should be sufficient in 99.99% of
cases if you already have python and git available:

git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-exppsy/pymvpa.git
cd pymvpa
make
export PYTHONPATH=$PWD

then if you start python session within the same shell (or any child
process of that shell, ie Python IDE), Python will use master
branch (which is our development "release" branch) code.  You can easily
confirm that in your Python session with

import mvpa
print mvpa.__version__

P.S. As Michael has pointed out before, 0.5 release API isn't compatible
with scripts written for 0.4, so your scripts for 0.4 will not work "out
of the box" for 0.5.

P.S.S.  The API of 0.5 is still liquid so things might change.

P.S.S.S. When reporting the bugs (against both development or
stable versions), please attach to your emails the output of

print mvpa.wtf()

Thanks in advance

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010, Michael Hanke wrote:

> Hi,

> as you might already know, we are approaching a new PyMVPA release. With
> the release getting closer (within the next weeks) it becomes apparent
> that the new PyMVPA is quite cool. From those who already tried we hear
> things like: "That's cool -- can I do this in the old PyMVPA? .... No." ;-)

> To ease the transition for you, we have prepared binary packages of a
> recent PyMVPA 0.5 development snapshot. It is available for the same
> platforms as the latest 0.4.4 release, being:

> DEBs at http://neuro.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pymvpa-snapshot/
> * Debian (lenny, squeeze, sid)
> * Ubuntu (intrepid, jaunty, karmic)

> RPMs at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://hankem://
> * OpenSUSE 11.0 (or later)
> * Fedora 10 (or later)
> * Redhat EL5 and CentOS5

> The packages are named 'python-mvpa-snapshot' and conflict with the
> released version, so you can only install one of them at a time.


> Enjoy!
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