Merge pull request easybuilders#1118 from hpcugent/develop

release EasyBuild v1.16.0

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ You might also want to look into [hub](https://github.com/defunkt/hub) for more
 
 ### Review process
 
-A member of the EasyBuild team will then review your pull request, paying attention to what you're contributing, how you implemented it and [Code style](https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/Code-style).
+A member of the EasyBuild team will then review your pull request, paying attention to what you're contributing, how you implemented it and [code style](http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Code_style.html).
 
 Most likely, some remarks will be made on your pull request. Note that this is nothing personal, we're just trying to keep the EasyBuild codebase as high quality as possible. Even when an EasyBuild team member makes changes, the same public review process is followed.
 

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -1,6 +1,54 @@
 This file contains a description of the major changes to the easybuild-framework EasyBuild package.
 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.
+
+v1.16.0 (December 18th 2014)
+----------------------------
+
+feature + bugfix release
+- deprecate automagic fallback to ConfigureMake easyblock (#1113)
+    - easyconfigs should specify easyblock = 'ConfigureMake' instead of relying on the fallback mechanism
+    - note: automagic fallback to ConfigureMake easyblock will be dropped in EasyBuild v2.0
+    - see also http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Deprecated-functionality.html#configuremake-fallback
+- stop triggering deprecated functionality, to enable use of --deprecated=2.0 (#1107, #1115, #1119)
+    - see http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Deprecated-functionality.html#configuremake-fallback for more information
+- various other enhancements, including:
+    - add script to clean up gists created via --upload-test-report (#958)
+    - also use -xHost when using Intel compilers on AMD systems (as opposed to -msse3) (#960)
+    - add Python version check in eb command (#1046)
+    - take versionprefix into account in HierarchicalMNS module naming scheme (#1058)
+    - clean up and refactor main.py, move functionality to other modules (#1059, #1064, #1075, #1087)
+    - add check in download_file function for HTTP return code + show download progress report (#1066, #1090)
+    - include info log message with name and location of used easyblock (#1069)
+    - add toolchains definitions for gpsmpi, gpsolf, impich, intel-para, ipsmpi toolchains (#1072, #1073)
+        - support for Parastation MPI based toolchains
+    - enforce that hiddendependencies is a subset of dependencies (#1078)
+        - this is done to avoid that site-specific policies w.r.t. hidden modules slip into contributed easyconfigs
+    - enable use of --show_hidden for avail subcommand with recent Lmod versions (#1081)
+    - add --robot-paths configure option (#1080, #1093, #1095, #1114)
+    - support use of %(DEFAULT_ROBOT_PATHS)s template in EasyBuild configuration files (#1100)
+        - see also http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Using_the_EasyBuild_command_line.html#controlling-the-robot-search-path
+    - use -xHost rather than -xHOST, to match Intel documentation (#1084)
+    - update and cleanup README file (#1085)
+    - deprecate self.moduleGenerator in favor of self.module_generator in EasyBlock (#1088)
+    - also support MPICH MPI family in mpi_cmd_for function (#1098)
+    - update documentation references to point to http://easybuild.readthedocs.org (#1102)
+    - check for OS dependencies with both rpm and dpkg (if available) (#1111)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+    - fix picking required software version specified by --software-version and clean up tweak.py (#1062, #1063)
+    - escape $ characters in module load message specified via modloadmsg easyconfig parameter) (#1068)
+    - take available hidden modules into account in dependency resolution (#1065)
+    - fix hard crash when using patch files with an empty list of sources (#1070)
+    - fix Intel MKL BLACS library being used for MPICH/MPICH2-based toolchains (#1072)
+    - fix regular expression in fetch_parameter_from_easyconfig_file function (#1096)
+    - don’t hardcode queue names when submitting a job (#1106)
+    - fix affiliation/mail address for Fotis in headers (#1105)
+    - filter out /dev/null entries in patch file in det_patched_files function (#1108)
+    - fix gmpolf toolchain definition, to have gmpich as MPI components (instead of gmpich2) (#1101)
+        - ‘MPICH’ refers to MPICH v3.x, while MPICH2 refers to MPICH(2) v2.x (MPICH v1.x is ancient/obsolete)
+        - note: this requires to reinstall the gmpolf module, using the updated easyconfig from easybuild-easyconfigs#1217
+
 v1.15.2 (October 7th 2014)
 --------------------------
 

easybuild/easybuild_config.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 @author: Pieter De Baets (Ghent University)
 @author: Jens Timmerman (Ghent University)
 @author: Toon Willems (Ghent University)
-@author: Fotis Georgatos (University of Luxembourg)
+@author: Fotis Georgatos (Uni.Lu, NTUA)
 """
 
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