Merge pull request #3 from boegel/gc3pie

sync with develop

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -3,6 +3,131 @@ For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 
 These release notes can also be consulted at http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
 
+v2.1.1 (May 18th 2015)
+----------------------
+
+bugfix release
+- fix issue with missing load statements when --module-only is used, don't skip ready/prepare steps (#1276)
+- enhance --search: only consider actual filename (not entire path), use regex syntax (#1281)
+- various other bug fixes, including:
+    - fix generate_software_list.py script w.r.t. dependencies marked as external modules (#1273)
+    - only use $LMOD_CMD value if lmod binary can't be found in $PATH (#1275)
+    - fix location of module_only build option w.r.t. default value (#1277)
+    - fix combined use of --hide-deps and hiddendependencies (#1280)
+    - remove log handlers that were added during tests, to ensure effective cleanup of log files (#1282)
+        - this makes the unit test suite run ~3x faster!
+    - define $CRAYPE_LINK_TYPE if 'dynamic' toolchain option is enabled for Cray compiler wrappers (#1283)
+
+v2.1.0 (April 30th 2015)
+------------------------
+
+feature + bugfix release
+- requires vsc-base v2.2.0 or more recent
+    - added support for LoggedException
+    - added support for add_flex action in GeneralOption
+    - added support to GeneralOption to act on unknown configuration environment variables
+- add support for only (re)generating module files: --module-only (#1018)
+    - module naming scheme API is enhanced to include det_install_subdir method
+    - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Partial_installations.html#module-only
+- add support for generating module files in Lua syntax (note: requires Lmod as modules tool) (#1060, #1255, #1256, #1270)
+    - see --module-syntax configuration option and http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Configuration.html#module-syntax
+- deprecate log.error method in favor of raising EasyBuildError exception (#1218)
+    - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Deprecated-functionality.html#depr-error-reporting
+- add support for using external modules as dependencies, and to provide metadata for external modules (#1230, #1265, #1267)
+    - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Using_external_modules.html
+- add experimental support for Cray toolchains on top of PrgEnv modules: CrayGNU, CrayIntel, CrayCCE (#1234, #1268)
+    - see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/EasyBuild-on-Cray for more information
+- various other enhancements, including:
+    - clear list of checksums when using --try-software-version (#1169)
+    - sort the results of searching for files (e.g., --search output) (#1214)
+    - enhance test w.r.t. use of templates in cfgfile (#1217)
+    - define %(DEFAULT_REPOSITORYPATH)s template for cfgfiles (see eb --avail-cfgfile-constants) (#1220)
+    - also reset $LD_PRELOAD when running module commands, in case module defined $LD_PRELOAD (#1222)
+    - move location of 'module use' statements in generated module file (*after* 'module load' statements) (#1232)
+    - add support for --show-default-configfiles (#1240)
+      - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Configuration.html#default-configuration-files
+    - report error on missing configuration files, rather than ignoring them (#1240)
+      - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Configuration.html#configuration-env-vars
+    - clean up commit message used in easyconfig git repository (#1248)
+    - add --hide-deps configuration option to specify names of software that must be installed as hidden modules (#1250)
+        - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Manipulating_dependencies.html#hide-deps
+    - add support for appending/prepending to --robot-paths to avoid overwriting default robot search path (#1252)
+        - see also http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Using_the_EasyBuild_command_line.html#robot-search-path-prepend-append
+    - enable detection of use of unknown $EASYBUILD-prefixed environment variables (#1253)
+    - add --installpath-modules and --installpath-software configuration options (#1258)
+      - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Configuration.html#installpath
+    - use dedicated subdirectory in temporary directory for each test to ensure better cleanup (#1260)
+    - get rid of $PROFILEREAD hack when running commands, not needed anymore (#1264)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+    - make bootstrap script robust against having vsc-base already available in Python search path (#1212, #1215)
+    - set default value for unpack_options easyconfig parameter to '', so self.cfg.update works on it (#1229)
+    - also copy rotated log files (#1238)
+    - fix parsing of --download-timeout value (#1242)
+    - make test_XDG_CONFIG_env_vars unit test robust against existing user config file in default location (#1259)
+    - fix minor robustness issues w.r.t. $XDG_CONFIG* and $PYTHONPATH in unit tests (#1262)
+    - fix issue with handling empty toolchain variables (#1263)
+
+v2.0.0 (March 6th 2015)
+-----------------------
+
+feature + bugfix release
+- requires vsc-base v2.0.3 or more recent
+    - avoid deprecation warnings w.r.t. use of 'message' attribute (hpcugent/vsc-base#155)
+    - fix typo in log message rendering --ignoreconfigfiles unusable (hpcugent/vsc-base#158)
+- removed functionality that was deprecated for EasyBuild version 2.0 (#1143)
+    - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Removed-functionality.html
+    - the fix_broken_easyconfigs.py script can be used to update easyconfig files suffering from this (#1151, #1206, #1207)
+    - for more information about this script, see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Useful-scripts.html#fix-broken-easyconfigs-py
+- stop including a crippled copy of vsc-base, include vsc-base as a proper dependency instead (#1160, #1194)
+    - vsc-base is automatically installed as a dependency for easybuild-framework, if a Python installation tool is used
+    - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Installation.html#required-python-packages
+- various other enhancements, including:
+    - add support for Linux/POWER systems (#1044)
+    - major cleanup in tools/systemtools.py + significantly enhanced tests (#1044)
+    - add support for 'eb -a rst', list available easyconfig parameters in ReST format (#1131)
+    - add support for specifying one or more easyconfigs in combination with --from-pr (#1132)
+        - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Integration_with_GitHub.html#using-easyconfigs-from-pull-requests-via-from-pr
+    - define __contains__ in EasyConfig class (#1155)
+    - restore support for downloading over a proxy (#1158)
+        - i.e., use urllib2 rather than urllib
+        - this involved sacrificing the download progress report (which was only visible in the log file)
+    - let mpi_family return None if MPI is not supported by a toolchain (#1164)
+    - include support for specifying system-level configuration files for EasyBuild via $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (#1166)
+        - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Configuration.html#default-configuration-files
+    - make unit tests more robust (#1167, #1196)
+        - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Unit-tests.html
+    - add hierarchical module naming scheme categorizing modules by 'moduleclass' (#1176)
+    - enhance bootstrap script to allow bootstrapping using supplied tarballs (#1184)
+        - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Installation.html#advanced-bootstrapping-options
+    - disable updating of Lmod user cache by default, add configuration option --update-modules-tool-cache (#1185)
+        - for now, only the Lmod user cache can be updated using --update-modules-tool-cache
+    - use available which() function, rather than running 'which' via run_cmd (#1192)
+    - fix install-EasyBuild-develop.sh script w.r.t. vsc-base dependency (#1193)
+    - also consider robot search path when looking for specified easyconfigs (#1201)
+        - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Using_the_EasyBuild_command_line.html#specifying-easyconfigs
+- various bug fixes, including:
+    - stop triggering deprecated/no longer support functionality in unit tests (#1126)
+    - fix from_pr test by including dummy easyblocks for HPL and ScaLAPACK (#1133)
+    - escape use of '%' in string with command line options with --job (#1135)
+    - fix handling specified patch level 0 (+ enhance tests for fetch_patches method) (#1139)
+    - fix formatting issues in generated easyconfig file obtained via --try-X (#1144)
+    - use log.error in tools/toolchain/toolchain.py where applicable (#1145)
+    - stop hardcoding /tmp in mpi_cmd_for function (#1146, #1200)
+    - correctly determine variable name for $EBEXTLIST when generating module file (#1156)
+    - do not ignore exit code of failing postinstall commands (#1157)
+    - fix rare case in which used easyconfig and copied easyconfig are the same (#1159)
+    - always filter hidden deps from list of dependencies (#1161)
+    - fix implementation of path_matches function in tools/filetools.py (#1163)
+    - make sure plain text keyring is used by unit tests (#1165)
+    - suppress creation of module symlinks for HierarchicalMNS (#1173)
+    - sort all lists obtained via glob.glob, since they are in arbitrary order (#1187)
+    - stop modifying $MODULEPATH directly in setUp/tearDown of toolchain tests (#1191)
+
+v1.16.2 (March 6th 2015)
+------------------------
+
+(no changes compared to v1.16.1, simple version bump to stay in sync with easybuild-easyblocks)
+
 v1.16.1 (December 19th 2014)
 ----------------------------
 

easybuild/__init__.py

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