Removed Features
This page aims at providing a short knowledge base designed to track dropped and potentially useful features for future development. To that end, the following table’s columns constitute:
- the name of the feature; also stands as a keyword.
- a short description; the main purpose is to have the feature as greppable as possible.
- removal PR number(s) related to their removal from the codebase.
- Short SHA pointing to the last master commit holding the feature for easy checkout.
| Name / Keyword | Short description | Removal PR(s) | SHA |
|---|---|---|---|
| ni_pci_6229 | This related to a circa 2007 project implementing hard real time dynamic clamp under RTAI linux. The development was done in conjunction with National Instruments’ NI PCI-6229 DAQ card. | #1399 | c46dbc7 |
| bluegene | Code related to BlueGene L, P and Q; support for BlueGene Checkpoint API (keywords: BGLCheckpoint, BGLCheckpointInit). | #1286 | 74d3db9 |
| SEJNOWSKI | C Preprocessor flag. | #1415 | e9ef741 |
| NRN_REALTIME | NEURON support for RTAI - Real Time Application Interface for Linux. Also relates to ni_pci_6229 | #1401 | d5f6139 |
| CYGWIN | Windows versions now use MINGW (more native to WINDOWS). | #1802 | 2f90f37 |
| Carbon | This legacy macOS toolkit was deprecated in 2012 and removed from macOS 10.15 | #1869 | 8fecd77 |
| LINDA | Linda is a coordination model that aids communication in parallel computing environments. Side note: the bulletin board implemented within the ParallelContext is NEURON’s analogy to LINDA’s conceptual functionality of tuple space. | #1919 | a5c36e9 |
| Java | NEURON Java support. | #1937 | 5a67957 |