Hello, This is good information.
I tried to use it a bit, but I felt that the movement of Easybuild became easier to understand, especially for the following. > * (experimental) support for "eb --trace" to trace the progress of > installations in more detail [4] > * feedback on the generated output is welcome! Best regards. 2017-09-11 16:49 GMT+09:00 Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.ho...@ugent.be>: > Dear EasyBuilders, > > I'm happy to announce the release of EasyBuild version 3.4.0 [1]. > You guessed it: this is the best EasyBuild release ever! > > Highlights include: > > * support for backing up existing modules via --backup-modules before > they are regenerated [2] > * this is enabled automatically with --skip and --module-only > > * support for adding or replacing checksums in easyconfig files via > --inject-checksums [3] > > * (experimental) support for "eb --trace" to trace the progress of > installations in more detail [4] > * feedback on the generated output is welcome! > > * updates to the easyblocks for GAMESS-US, MRtrix, ROOT, Siesta + > various bug fixes > > * support for 31 new software packages, incl. CLISP, OpenNLP, PHAST, > PYTHIA & UNAFold > > * updated easyconfigs for Boost 1.65.0, binutils 2.29, GCC(core) 7.2.0, > GAMESS-US 20170420-R1, Perl 5.26.0, ROOT 6.10.04, etc. > > > This brings the total number of supported software packages to 1,293 [5]! > A detailed overview of all changes is available in the release notes [6]. > > Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another! > > > To upgrade to EasyBuild v3.4.0, there are several options, see [7]. > Two particularly easy options include: > > * eb --install-latest-eb-release # requires EasyBuild v3.3.0 or more > recent > > * eb --from-pr 5107 # use easyconfig from PR #5107 [8] > > > (EasyBuild v3.3.0 is required for --install-latest-eb-release because > support for SHA256 checksums is required) > > > Enjoy! > > regards, > > Kenneth (a.k.a. boegel) > EasyBuild release manager > > > [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild/3.4.0 > [2] http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Backup_modules.html > [3] > http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Writing_easyconfig_files.html#adding-or-replacing-checksums-using-inject-checksums > [4] http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Tracing_progress.html > [5] > http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/Supported_software.html > [6] http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html > [7] > http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html#updating-an-existing-easybuild-installation > [8] https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/5107/files
