Hi,

I created a little tool that provides packaging for NEST extension modules into python packages that can be `pip installed` on the target machine.  https://pip-nest.readthedocs.io/en/latest/  

First off, is this interesting to the community? It certainly seems easier to `pip install some-module` than to provide installation instructions, and I can now specify my modules as dependencies in code I distribute.

Secondly, there are some shortcomings based on the fact that the pip install only reliably produces the build artifacts into python's site-packages and nest doesn't look for them there. This can probably only be elegantly solved by adding an `entry_point` to the nest python module so that these pip nest modules can announce themselves there?


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Robin De Schepper, MSc
Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences
Unit of Neurophysiology
University of Pavia, Italy
Via Forlanini 6, 27100 Pavia - Italy
Tel: (+39) 038298-7607
http://www-5.unipv.it/dangelo/