Jochen Martin Eppler

For me, this boils down to the fact that NESTML (and possibly other external tools) need a way to query NEST version information in a nice way. As different parts...

@clinssen: Sorry that I've overlooked this one and might have sounded like I discovered this issue in our recent meeting. That was not my intention. Please also see https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/2109#issuecomment-921013681 and...

@heplesser: - I'm also not expecting any problems for synapses, as they don't have IDs in the sense nodes have them. - #2194 has been merged, so the dependency you...

@med-ayssar: can you please also merge master, so the latest changes are reflected in the diff? Thanks!

@med-ayssar: I've created https://github.com/med-ayssar/nest-simulator/pull/1 with some changes that I'd like to see in this one. Can you please have a look? Thanks!

Yay! :smile:

Here are some examples that hopefully clarify my style preferences mentioned above: ```c++ /** * Set the minimal and maximal delay and override automatically determined values. */ void set_delay_extrema(long min_delay,...

I am against re-using the old name `ResetNetwork()` here, as it would again suggest one-function-to-rule-them-all semantics. I would rather introduce one or more functions with clear names and atomic functionality....

The main advantage is that static linking eliminates dynamic linking as a possible problem source ;-) An example would be an issue we are currently seeing on [JURON](http://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/EN/Research/ITBrain/Supercomputer/JULIA_JURON/_node.html), where the...

@terhorstd: No, it's not. This one is purely about the internal helper libraries that are linked together to form the `nest` and `sli` executables and the `pynestkernel.so`. As I'm anyway...