Conference call notes 20180425

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Notes on the 99th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday April 11th 2018 (5pm - 6pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (4):

• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)
• Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
• Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University)
• Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)

Agenda

• outlook to upcoming EasyBuild v3.6.0
• discussion on enabling automatic fallback to lib64 in sanity check by default (or not)
• feedback on including support in PythonPackage easyblock to detect auto-downloading of dependencies
• proposal by Jack to handle Java security updates using wrapper module
• Q&A

EasyBuild v3.6.0

• ETA: Fri Apr 27th 2018
• 263 merged PRs (39+16+208)
• release notes:
  • framework: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2485
  • easyblocks: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1406
  • easyconfigs: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/6232
• incl. initial integration with Singularity: creating container recipes & images
  • see http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/develop/Containers.html

Enabling automatic fallback to lib64 in sanity check?

• cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2477

Detecting auto-downloaded dependencies in PythonPackage easyblock

• cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1377

Migrating to Java wrapper module to deal with security updates

• cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/5203

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