Dear EasyBuilders,
The documentation on installing EasyBuild [1] is (finally!) updated to
better reflect current best practices (use pip, or install EasyBuild as
a module with EasyBuild), with a big thanks to Simon Branford for
looking into this!
The infamous EasyBuild bootstrap script is now deprecated [2].
It has been a useful way to work around installation issues over the
years, but nowadays the standard pip Python installation tool is stable
enough and available almost everywhere (especially with Python 3), so it
has outlived it's purpose...
In summary:
* to install EasyBuild from scratch, use either:
- "pip install easybuild" (or a variant thereof, see [1])
- 3-stage (manual) bootstrap via pip to install EasyBuild with EasyBuild
* to install the latest version of EasyBuild as a (new) module,
use "eb --install-latest-eb-release"
regards,
Kenneth
[1] https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Installation.html
[2] https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/3742
