EasyBuild 2.1

[boegel]

Current planning: release April 1st 2015

planned changes (more-or-less in order of preference, more changes not listed here can/will be included, only changes that are ready in time will be included):

framework:

• support for --only-module (see add support for only (re)generating module file easybuild-framework#1018)
  • support for module files in Lua syntax (see Support Lua modulefiles (REVIEW) easybuild-framework#1060)
• deprecate log.error, use raise EasyBuildError instead (see derive EasyBuildError from LoggedException, deprecate log.error in favor of raise EasyBuildError easybuild-framework#1218)
• Cray support (see Add support for Cray PrgEnv compiler wrappers (OK) easybuild-framework#1234)
  • add support for external_modules, to specify dependencies on modules not produced using EasyBuild (see add support for loading 'external' modules (REVIEW) easybuild-framework#1230)
  • add definitions for toolchains on top of Cray Programming Environment modules (see Add support for Cray PrgEnv compiler wrappers (OK) easybuild-framework#1234)

easyblocks:

• enhance PythonPackage (see define $PYTHONNOUSERSITE in PythonPackage easyblock easybuild-easyblocks#577)
• fix $MKLROOT definition (see fix definition of $MKLROOT, should be set to 'mkl' subdir of install dir easybuild-easyblocks#576)
• various updates to existing easyblocks
• new easyblocks for supporting more software packages

easyconfigs:

• more easyconfigs for software already supported (version updates, other toolchains)
• various easyconfigs for new software
• easyconfig for building a couple of software packages with Cray toolchains, e.g.: CP2K, OpenFOAM, boost, HDF5, WRF, QuantumESPRESSO, NWChem, NAMD, GROMACS, GAMESS-US, Python, ...

postponed:

• deprecate $EBVAR* (see defining $EBVAR env vars should be deprecated/dropped easybuild-framework#1219)
• support for GC3Pie backend for --job (see Support parallel builds with GC3Pie (REVIEW) easybuild-framework#1008)
• support for --review-pr (see add support for --review-pr easybuild-framework#1142)
• support for Mercurial easyconfigs repository (see Add mercurial repository support. easybuild-framework#979)
• support for downloading from SVN repository (see added support for checking out svn revisions to download_file easybuild-framework#1082)
• add support for --update-module-caches (see add support for --update-lmod-caches (disabled by default) and --compile-lmod-caches (WIP) easybuild-framework#1177, depends on add lmod_update_system_cache.sh script in contrib TACC/Lmod#58)
• verify installation of a dummy Python package before actually installing a Python package easybuild-easyblocks#475