Hi EasyBuilders,
I wanted to point out the following two pull requests that have just
been merged in the develop branches of the easybuild-framework and
easybuild-easyblocks repositories, respectively. These changes will be
part of the next EasyBuild release v2.1 (currently planned for end of
April).
* https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1218
* https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/588
With this, we're deprecating the error() and exception() log methods,
and are replacing them with "raise EasyBuildError" statements.
This change is mainly important for people that have custom easyblocks,
or are making changes to the framework.
For now (EasyBuild 2.x), the available error() and exception() log
methods are left unchanged, but they should no longer be used.
In EasyBuild 3.0, the custom implementation for these log methods (which
raise an EasyBuildError next to logging the specified message) will be
removed,
which will effectively make call to error() and exception() non-fatal.
More details are available in the updated documentation on deprecated
functionality:
http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Deprecated-functionality.html#report-errors-by-raising-easybuilderror-rather-than-using-log-methods
regards,
Kenneth
