Hi Kenneth,
(and here's the interesting email)
On 22/05/2012 11:59, Kenneth Hoste wrote:
> Just to be clear: we will be porting everything we already have support for in
> our old code base in the next couple of months, but will not actively start
> implementing support for other software packages in this list (we just don't
> have the time for it).
Yes, sure! I'd be doing the same if I was in your shoes.
> We add support for new software packages on user demand, which is the only
> feasible way for us now.
The links were only provided fyi, in case you wanted to shop ideas.
> ABINIT (not ABINIS, typo?)
fixed :-)
> Here we already have support in our old codebase for LAPACK, BLAS, ATLAS, MKL,
> ScaLAPACK, BLACS, FFTW, Python, SciPy, NumPy, PETSc, GOTOBLAS, ARPACK, ACML,
> NETCDF, HDF5, SPRNG, SAGE.
> Quite a few of these are already available in EasyBuild v0.6 (see the
> easyconfigs directory).
[...]
> So, it seems like we already support quite a bit of stuff you're interested in
> coming up soon. :)
This is a very decent initial selection; when do you guesstimate for v0.7?
> Again, we probably won't be actively adding support for software packages we
> (currently) don't need ourselves for now.
> But, if you end up writing easyblocks for these packages, we'll be happy to
> have a look at them and include them in the EasyBuild codebase.
Exactly that. I may be able to contribute back with some Bioinformatics EBs;
I'll experiment and let you know how it goes.
> It seems like our site follows most of the good practices for module naming.
Indeed, and this is a really good sign for cross-site namespace conformance.
> We don't include precision in the suffix of modules names now though.
Purely optional, no issue at all.
> I don't think we'll change that very soon, but we can probably make the module
> naming scheme that EasyBuild uses tuneable through the EasyBuild config file.
I think that would be an excellent idea and make the framework truly generic.
> Since we solely run RHEL derivative based cluster, we won't be actively adding
> support for Debian based systems for now.
> But again, if you would like to contribute fixes for stuff that breaks on
> Debian, please do, we'll be happy to add it to the EasyBuild release.
Good, we'll be in touch.
cheers,
Fotis
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