Robin De Schepper

@Jordan-Hall when importing there's errors for the `import type` statement at the top and the `../animations/animations` import.

From what I can tell, skimping over your example it will most likely be because `matplotlib` doesn't handle the `Color` objects returned from the `brown.range_to` generator. You should try converting...

Which version of colour and Python are you using?

> make install should install nest, but should not try to install all its python dependencies. NEST does not have a Python package, and so `make install`, has been doing...

FWIW: "being a proper binary extension to Python" boils down to having NEST's CMake setup successfully executed by `scikit-build`.

A "lean" superflag would also be appreciated: no share, no docs, no test, no help, no cruft. Just the binaries and libs 👍

I don't know if this is the case yet, but a class hierarchy of those error messages would also be useful for writing better quality Python code and tools: ```python...

If it's not required for the NEST kernel to function it shouldn't be an `install_requires` requirement of NEST. The tests, examples and others should be appropriately dealt with as optional...

Build requirements should be specified as a part of the `[build-system]` table in either `setup.cfg` or `pyproject.toml`. This will be included for wheels for example (still haven't found the time...

* A sanitized version should be made available to Python, during release workflows, to be packaged. * It should be immediately clear from the Python version whether it is an...