Conference call notes 20150930

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Notes on the 36th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday September 30th 2015 (4.30pm - 5.00pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (??):

• Petar Forai (IMP/IMBA, Austria)
• Fotis Georgatos (freelancer)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
• Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada)

Agenda

• outlook to EasyBuild v2.4.0; candidate features/changes include:

  • support for eb --extended-dry-run/-x (see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1388)

  • subtoolchain-aware --robot (see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1306)

    • (unrelated) bug hit during testing: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1402

  • support for specifying module name to install to eb (see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1374)

  • performance improvements

    • using python -O in eb wrapper script (see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1357)
    • make EasyBuild work when installed as a zipped .egg (see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1399)

  • support for PGI-based compiler toolchain(s) (https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1342)

  • discuss roadmap to add support for 'fat' easyconfigs in YAML syntax

    • see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1407

Notes

Outlook to EasyBuild v2.4.0

• killer feature: eb --extended-dry-run (eb -x)
• lots of other good stuff too, unclear what will be finished in time

Roadmap for 'fat' easyconfigs in YAML syntax

• see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1407
• .yeb seems to make sense