Dear EasyBuilders,
I'm happy to announce the release of EasyBuild version 2.5.0 [1], the
greatest EasyBuild version up until now. Honestly.
This release features:
* support for installing the latest versions of several of the
Intel tools (thanks Fokko, Lumìr, Ward!), including:
* install the 2016 versions of the Intel C/C++/Fortran compilers
* support to specify components to install (to keep the
installations 'slim')
* support for compiling with generic optimization via
--optarch=GENERIC (thanks Pablo!) [2]
* support for using GCCcore as a base underneath all toolchain
compilers, which is sort of a replacement for the GNU toolchain (thanks
Alan!)
* support for listing build dependencies as hidden dependencies
* initial support for using the IBM XL compilers in compiler
toolchains (thanks Jack!)
* improved (but still experimental) support for easyconfig files in
YAML format, a.k.a. .yeb easyconfigs (thanks Caroline!)
* added support for installing 39 new software packages, next to
updates for already supported software (incl. Python 2.7.11, OpenFOAM
3.0.0, OpenFOAM-Extend 3.2, ...)
... and various other enhancements and bug fixes.
Additionally, packaging support [3] is no longer considered
experimental, but stable.
More details are available in the release notes [4].
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v2.5.0, there are several options:
(i) (re)bootstrap EasyBuild to obtain an EasyBuild/2.5.0 module to
load [5]
(ii) install EasyBuild v2.5.0 with a previous version of EasyBuild,
using the easyconfig file available in [6]
(iii) install EasyBuild v2.5.0 from PyPI, using one of the standard
Python installation tools (easy_install, pip, ...)
(iv) update your Git working copies of the different EasyBuild
repositories
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth
EasyBuild release manager
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild
[2]
http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Controlling_compiler_optimization_flags.html
[3] http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Packaging_support.html
[4] http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Release_notes.html
[5]
http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Installation.html#bootstrapping-easybuild
[6] https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/2238
