Hi Ward, Jack, in fact, the advantage of the last approach is that it promotes public scrutiny/commenting. Speaking of which it is very likely a good idea, helping to declutter our mailboxes!
cheers, Fotis On Jun 6, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Ward Poelmans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Jack Perdue <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Any plans for adding web-based repos for easyconfig files? >> >> e.g. >> EASYBUILD_ROBOT=/http/www.siliconslick.com/easybuild/eb_repos_cleaned/ada >> >> which would resolve to (via EB framework): > > Hi Jack, > > I've thought about extending the github support within EB. Currently, > you can use --from-pr to use easyconfig from a PR. This could be > extended to use any fork of the easyconfigs on github. It simply has > to download the tree, extract it and add it to the robot path. > > That is still somewhat different from what you want but it boils down > to the same: download, extract and add to robot path. > The major complication is of course when the easyblock also requires > changes. We would need a way to signal a minimum version. > > Ward -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum
