Dear Joachim,
On 15/08/2018 12:34, Joachim Hein wrote:
On 15 Aug 2018, at 12:18, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Joachim,
On 15/08/2018 11:29, Joachim Hein wrote:
Hi,
I noticed https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/6682 and
https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/6703
I am presently working on moving python packages to foss and intel 2018b (h5py
was merged, so did boost with python). Could there please be a
discussion/statement how we want to handle this?
Also, we need to think how we want to share such important info in our
community? Discussion in slack seems not to be working (the channel is to busy
in my view). Stumbling about stuff on GitHub is in my view not the best way to
share info like that.
Thanks for reading.
I was planning to also share this on the mailing list, but you beat me to it.
The plan is outlined at
https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/6682#issuecomment-413003200,
in short:
* get the easyconfigs for Python 3.6.6 with */2018b merged (see
https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/6703)
* rework easyconfigs already in develop to use Python 3.6.6 rather than 3.7.0
Kenneth,
Thanks. Are we withdrawing 3.7 or adding 3.6.6? There is something to be said
for keeping the 3.7.0 but have the 3.6.6 as the preferred and better supported
option. Similar to what we have in the GCC space. We often have a
conservative GCC in the standard toolchains, but offer more modern versions
(e.g. GCC 8.1) as an option with limited support. The question is, how one
would communicate that to users …
As mentioned in
https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/6682, we
plan to keep the easyconfigs for Python 3.7.0.
The tests that are run for each pull request ensure that only one Python
3.x version is used as dependency for the 2018b toolchain generation, so
if someone opens a PR using Python 3.7.0, the tests will make it clear
3.6.6 should be used instead.
Is it an option to have an EB quick release, that only releases the new Python
3.6.6 (and a few add ons)? Having that in a proper release makes developing
python packages (like h5py) so much easier (at least for my workflow).
I'm trying to work towards another release, but I still have a fair
amount of catching up to do after my summer leave, and there are a
couple more (minor) things I would like to see included in EasyBuild
v3.6.3...
regards,
Kenneth
Best wishes
joachim
regards,
Kenneth
