Conference call notes 20190206

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Notes on the 119th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Feb 6th 2019 (17:00 - 18:00 CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):

• Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
• Fotis Georgatos (SDSC, Switzerland)
• Victor Holanda (CSCS, Switzerland)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, UK)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)
• Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University, US)

Agenda

• report on 4th EasyBuild User Meeting
• follow-up on moving Python to GCCcore
• standard (container-based) testing environment
• Q&A

Report on 4th EasyBuild User Meeting

• commonly requested features

  • support for uninstalling
  • Python 3 support
  • better logging/error reporting
    • Spack approach makes sense: use CMake regex patterns for "zooming in" on errors/warnings in logs
    • should also pick up config.log and include it in EasyBuild log?

• integration with ReFrame

• Spack talk

• query about progress with .yeb easyconfigs (YAML syntax)

Follow-up on moving Python to GCCcore

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