Conference call notes 20150930 - easybuilders/easybuild GitHub Wiki
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Notes on the 36th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday September 30th 2015 (4.30pm - 5.00pm CET)
Attendees
Alphabetical list of attendees (??):
- Petar Forai (IMP/IMBA, Austria)
- Fotis Georgatos (freelancer)
- Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
- Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
- Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada)
Agenda
- outlook to EasyBuild v2.4.0; candidate features/changes include:
-
support for
eb --extended-dry-run
/-x
(see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1388) -
subtoolchain-aware
--robot
(see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1306)- (unrelated) bug hit during testing: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1402
-
support for specifying module name to install to eb (see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1374)
-
performance improvements
- using
python -O
in eb wrapper script (see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1357) - make EasyBuild work when installed as a zipped
.egg
(see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1399)
- using
-
support for PGI-based compiler toolchain(s) (https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1342)
-
discuss roadmap to add support for 'fat' easyconfigs in YAML syntax
-
Notes
Outlook to EasyBuild v2.4.0
- killer feature:
eb --extended-dry-run
(eb -x
) - lots of other good stuff too, unclear what will be finished in time
Roadmap for 'fat' easyconfigs in YAML syntax
- see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1407
.yeb
seems to make sense