This Pull Request fixes #377

[jschuecker]

This should not be merged until nest/nest-simulator#158 is merged.

[apdavison]

Our policy is that the PyNN master branch should always work with the most recent released version of NEST, so once NEST 2.10 is released we can merge this into master. In the meantime, I could create a nest-dev branch for people wishing to use PyNN master with NEST master, and merge your fix into that. What do you think?

[jschuecker]

@apdavison, that sounds good to me!

[mschmidt87]

I just added 2 commits that fix the unittests of NEST in pyNN if run against NEST 2.10.
However, the Travis CI system fails. As far as I can see, there are two problems:

1. Travis tries to download the release version of NEST with a false URL.
2. Travis tries to download NEST 2.6.0, but the newest release version is NEST 2.10.

The URL in travis should thus be changed to
https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/releases/download/v2.10.0/nest-2.10.0.tar.gz

[apdavison]

Hi @jschuecker, please can you re-open this pull request against the nest-dev branch? (I know that NEST 2.10 has already been released, but I'd like to test the workflow).

[jschuecker]

@apdavison, I have re-opened the pull request against the nest-dev branch.

[apdavison]

Closed in favour of #392