Hello EasyBuilders,
I'm happy to announce the release of EasyBuild v2.1.1, which is the best
release so far, no doubt about it. (*)
This is a bugfix release, mainly motivated by some issues with the
--module-only command line option that was introduced in EasyBuild
v2.1.0: modules generated via --module-only in combination with --force
were missing 'module load' statements for dependencies, and several
easyblocks turned out to be incompatible with --module-only.
These problems have been resolved, and the unit tests were enhanced to
try and make sure easyblocks remain compatible with --module-only.
Other changes include support for supplying regular expression patterns
to --search (and only considering the easyconfig filename, rather than
the entire path, see [2]), support for builing and installing GROMACS
v5.x, adding several new toolchain versions (ictce/7.3.5 and Cray*), and
support for installing 3 new software packages.
A detailed overview of all changes is available in the EasyBuild release
notes [3].
To upgrade to EasyBuild v2.1.1, there are several options:
(i) (re)bootstrap EasyBuild to obtain an EasyBuild/2.1.1 module to
load [4]
(ii) install EasyBuild v2.1.1 with a previous version of EasyBuild,
using the easyconfig file available in [5]
note: make sure you're using https PyPI source URLs in case
you're using an easyconfig file obtained via some other way, cfr. [6]
(iii) install EasyBuild v2.1.1 from PyPI, using one of the standard
Python installation tools (easy_install, pip, ...) [7]
(iv) updating your Git working copies of the different EasyBuild
repositories
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth
EasyBuild release manager
[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild
[2]
https://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Using_the_EasyBuild_command_line.html#searching-for-easyconfigs
[3] https://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Release_notes.html
[4]
https://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Installation.html#bootstrapping-easybuild
[5] https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/1615
[6] https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1286
[7]
https://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Installation_Alternative.html#standard-installation-of-latest-release
(*): I'm aware I stated the same about EasyBuild v2.1.0, but this was a
valid statement at the time.
