Wishlist

Here is a list of features that are desired in next versions of EasyBuild:

USER-oriented features:

• Consider support of "formal" language to describe package info & dependencies, eg. CUDF syntax
• http://blog.mancoosi.org
• http://www.mancoosi.org/papers/cbse11.pdf "MPM: a modular package manager"
• http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0456 "Aligning component upgrades"
• Consider integrated support for relocatable .rpms (with --prefix), .srpms & RPM's .spec files
• Add possibility to save the logfile somewhere even when failures happen (/tmp is no good for queue submitted jobs)
• Consider category-oriented module sets (eg. module load bioinformatics-tools) # may be done outside of EB logic
• Allow for custom-definition of easyblock paths (instead of enforcing any "a-z/" dir structure
• How to organize a collection of .eb files coming from different sources? (eg. distinct git repos)
• Seen at http://joeyh.name/code/mr/ : "When updating a git repository, pull from two different upstreams and merge the two together."
• extreme thought: yes, this is an extreme thought: support module search/install extensions

SYSADMIN-oriented features:

• Provide some smart way to handle dependencies like "tcsh" which have no meaning on Debian
• Define the namespace "by a standard"; eg. like [https://github.com/fgeorgatos/HPC-RFC/blob/master/0001/0001.md]
• Give freedom to define the namespace format (eg. original Package names OR the lower case version)
• Support more configurable formats of version strings (as seen below, how other HPC sites do it)
• nested levels (ie. split version string in sub sections)
• provide hooks for gnu/gcc/intel/pgi etc strings

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  Example name                                               WHO                   Reference URL & Comments
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  netcdf/3.6.2                                               TACC                  [[http://services.tacc.utexas.edu/index.php/using-modules][]] \\ Lmod: automatic reloading of an entire module hierarchy when a single module anywhere in the hierarchy is changed.
  hpc/netcdf-3.6.3\_intel-11.0.083                           HARVARD               [[http://rc.fas.harvard.edu/faq/modulelist][]] \\ very long and complete list
  misc-libs/netcdf/3.6.3\_intel                              CLUMEQ                [[https://www.clumeq.ca/wiki/index.php/ModulesDisponiblesSurColosse][]] \\ nested layout
  netcdf/intel/64/4.0 & netcdf/gnu/64/4.0                    SARA                  [[http://www.sara.nl/systems/shared/modules/][]] \\ [[http://www.sara.nl/systems/lisa/news/modules-ng][]] \\  [[http://www.sara.nl/systems/lisa/news/amd64-phase1][]] \\  [[http://www.sara.nl/systems/lisa/news/Modules-deprecated-2011-04-04][]]
  netcdf/4.0.1                                               UIBK                  [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/zid/systeme/hpc-systeme/common/tutorials/modules-howto.html][]] \\ PREFERRED\_MC
  netcdf/X.Y.Z/gnu-4.1.2                                     UIBK, too             [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik/howto/hpc/modules.html][]]
  netcdf/X.Y.Z-gnu                                           CSC                   [[http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/hippu\_guide/using\_hippu/modules/index\_html][]]
  ofed/qlogic/gcc/64/1.2.7                                   UCL                   [[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/common/research-computing/services/legion-upgrade/userguide/userenvironment][]]
  netcdf/3.6.2                                               MIT                   [[http://www.darwinproject.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Compute\_cluster\_hardware/software\_overview][]]
  netcdf/X.Y.Z                                               MIT, too              [[http://coyote.mit.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Modules][]]
  netcdf/3.6.2                                               CAM                   [[http://www.hpc.cam.ac.uk/user/software.html][]]
  netcdf/4.0.1\_nc3                                          UTORONTO              [[https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/wiki/index.php/Software\_and\_Libraries][]]
  blas/?                                                     VLSCI@AU              [[http://www.vlsci.org.au/documentation/software-applications][]]
  fluent/?                                                   EPFL                  [[http://pleiades.epfl.ch/index.php?option=com\_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30][]]
  netcdf/4.0.0.3.1jg64                                       CSCS                  [[http://user.cscs.ch/software\_and\_programming\_environment/compilers\_and\_programming/rosa\_cray\_xt5/modules\_framework/index.html][]]
  netcdf/4.1.1/pgi/10.3/64                                   TAMU                  [[http://brazos.tamu.edu/software/modules.html][]]
  sles10.1\_gnu4.1.2\_shared                                 UTENNESSEE            [[http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/computing-resources/kraken/software][]]
  netcdf/4.0-pgi, /4.0-gcc , /4.1.1                          UMICH                 [[http://cac.engin.umich.edu/resources/software/][]]
  netcdf-4.0.1                                               ARSC                  [[http://www.arsc.edu/support/news/systemnews/][]]
  NetCDF/4.1.3-gnu                                           Griffith University   [[http://confluence.rcs.griffith.edu.au:8080/display/GHPC/netcdf][]]
  HMMER                                                      iCER/HPCC             [[https://wiki.hpcc.msu.edu/display/Bioinfo/Module+Files][]]
  HMMER                                                      UPPNEX                [[https://www.uppnex.uu.se/installed-software][]]
  uberftp-client-2.6                                         NCSA                  [[http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Hardware/CommonDoc/module.html][]]
  netcdf                                                     LRZ                   [[http://www.lrz.de/services/software/utilities/modules/deisa\_details.html][]] \\ Ref. on DEISA setup: [[http://www.lrz.de/services/software/utilities/modules/deisa\_details.html][]]
  globus                                                     PRACE sites           [[http://www.prace-ri.eu/Interactive-Access-to-HPC][]]
  globus/5.0.4 & GLOBUS-5.0                                  TACC                  [[http://www.underworldproject.org/BuildRecipes/ranger.rst][]] See Teragrid below
  netcdf/4.1.2-gnu, /4.1.2-intel, /3.6.3-gnu, /3.6.3-intel   CyI/euclid@LS2        
  netcdf/3.6.3-gcc, netcdf-4/4.0.1-gcclf                     CyI/planck            
  netcdf/3.6.2-intel, /3.6.2-gnu                             BA@LS2                
  netcdf/4.1.3-gcc(default)                                  CyI/CyTera@LS2        
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