Hi Yaroslav! 😁 Yes, as I said earlier in the thread, we've separated those concerns (the app and the lib) making it: - easier for people, especially linux users, that only want the lib (they just install psychopy) - not *much* harder to use the wx app (install psychopy-app) which we tend to call Standalone - easier for us to package only the parts we need (the lib) into the new Electron app (Studio)
>From a packaging perspective, doing an install from `psychopy-app` should achieve pretty much identical results as previously installing from `psychopy` repo - it installs all depedencies of both. Yes, you still launch the app by calling `psychopy` and internally the cross-linking of the code between the two should be seamless to the user. So re-using previous work to build the Standalone app should be easy. Should you switch to building Studio instead of PsychoPy Studio? We will eventually replace the app but we plan to support both for another year or so until we're confident that Studio is fully feature complete (e.g. right now it doesn't have built-in demos) and robust. In most ways it's superior to the old Python/wx app, but it's still a very new codebase so we're calling it the "beta" option for now. I guess the question is for you whether you want to support beta and/or deprecated packages Happy to jump on a call if that would help to clarify. Best wishes, Jon On September 21, 2026 at 1:51 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko ([email protected]) wrote: Hi Jon, LONG TIME no byte or beer exchange! I hope you are doing splendid across the pond and our paths would still cross in real-life some time! It seems that the issue is that we package sources from https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy but they are insufficient to run psychopy "app", and we also need to package https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy-app since that is what it relies on to start the `psychopy` overall. BUT on that github repo description it says This is the code for the Python-written PsychoPy Application (now being replace by PsychoPy Studio) so I decided to ask -- what is the status of that Studio and either we should look into psychopy-app packaging or right away go after that studio? (I guess https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy-studio ). Cheers On Mon, 14 Sep 2026, Jon Peirce wrote: Package builds fine from Git in pbuilder but once you install the package and call the binary its crashing.That is the sort of thing my team might be able to help with. Is there anything in ~/.psychopy3/last_app ? Best wishes, Jon -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
