Pmodules/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog of Pmodules

Version 1.1.12

• modulecmd
  • User visible changes
    • experimental support for Lmod
    • support for use flags has been removed. (A postfix like '_slurm' can still be used)

Version 1.1.11

• modulecmd

  • User visible changes
    • Improved error handling and messages
    • Python support added
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • Bugfixes

• build-system

  • User visible changes
    • building with legacy variants files fixed.
    • building with YAML config files is still experimental and not recommended for now

Version 1.1.10

• modulecmd

  • User visible changes
    • New options for module search.
      • With the option --group the search can be restricted to a group.
      • With the option --newest only the newest versions are displayed.
    • find as alias for the sub-command search added.
    • Bugfix: the sub-commands whatis and keyword|apropos were broken by design.
    • Bugfix: after loading a Pmodules module, it was not shown with module list.
    • Bugfix in scanning the depth of groups.
    • Bugfix: after module purge the environment variable PMODULES_HOME was not defined an more.
    • Bugfix: source the shell init file only if a Pmodules module is loaded.
    • Bugfix: unsetting aliases in modulefiles was not handled properly in module purge
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • initialisation error for bash and zsh fixed

• build-system

  • User visible changes
    • modbuild is now defined as function like module. Therefor no Pmodules module must be loaded to build a module with modbuild
    • The system can now be defined in the module (YAML) configuration file.
    • Build dependencies can (and should) now be specified with build_requires in the YAML configuration file.
    • Bugfix: cleanup of modulefiles in overlays fixed. A module can be in more than one overlay. These overlays must be specified in the module configuration file.
    • Bugfix: querying dependencies from YAML configuration file fixed. Under some conditions the string 'null' was in the list of dependencies.
    • Bugfix: create group directory if it doesn't exist.
    • Bugfix: create the module $PREFIX before processing the install targets not before all targets. If $PREFIX is created before processing any target and the build fails, modbuild assumes that the module have been already built successfully.

• Internal changes and fixes

  • code review/re-factoring
  • modbuild is now using the Bash installed in Pmodules itself.
  • test code with set -o nounset, several issues with this setting fixed (not necessarily bugs).

• other changes

• The build script to bootstrap Pmodules itself doesn't use modbuild any more to compile required software packages. With this change we can remove some special cases from modbuild.

• The bootstrap script requires Bash 5.0 or newer now.

• Bugfix: in the Pmodules modulefile force the sourcing of the shell init script while in mode load only.

Version 1.1.9

• modulecmd

  • User visible changes
    • Overlay info added to output of sub-command search.
    • Output of module search --verbose revised for better readability.
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • The shell`s init file is sourced, when Pmodules is loaded as module. This is required if there are changes in the module function or too define new shell functions.
    • A bug in libmodules.tcl:module-addgroup() which crashed module load ... has been fixed.
    • In versions before 1.1.9 a colon at the beginning or end of MODULEPATH crashed the module function. This has been fixed.

• build-system

  • User visible changes
    • The command modbuild is now defined as shell function analog to the module command. The main reason to introduce this function is due to the fact that Bash version 5 or newer is now required by modbuild. The function modbuild load Bash 5.x as module before calling the modbuild-script. If you want to use the script directly, a Bash binary with version 5.x must be in PATH.
    • If a build-script is in the current working directory, modbuild can now be called without specifying the build-script.
    • In case of an error in a build-step the build process did not abort as it should. This has been fixed.
    • The option --overlay can now be used
      • to define an overlay if legacy variants files are used
      • to override the overlay in a YAML variants file.
    • The new keyword with has been introduced in YAML variants file to specified hierarchical dependencies.
    • The function pbuild::supported_os has been removed. pbuild::supported_systems provides the same functionality for legacy configuration files. In YAML module configuration files systems have to be used.

• Internal changes and fixes

  • bugfix in setting PATH
  • requires bash 5 or later

Version 1.1.8

• modulecmd
  • User visible changes
    • configuration in YAML files
    • modulefiles and software must not have a common root directory
    • the installation root must be specified, it doesn`t default to the base 'overlay' any more.
    • zsh initialisation fixed.
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • std::upvar() replaced with reference variables in part of the code.
    • environment variable PMODULES_ROOT removed.
    • unsetting aliases fixed.
    • update to bash 5.1.16
    • update to findutils 4.9 (macOS only)
    • minor fixes
• build-system
  • User visible changes
    • YAML format for variants files
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • use lib libpmodules.bash
    • bugfixes
• modmanage
  • User visible changes
    • none, support for overlays still missing
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • none

Version 1.1.7

• modulecmd
  • list of available overlays in subcommand use is now better readable
• buid-system
  • overlay definition must now be in YAML format
  • support for YAML formatted variant files (the legacy format is still supported)
  • build-system in 1.1.6 was still work in progress and broken

Version 1.1.6

• modulecmd
  • bugfix in searching/loading modules in a hierarchical group

Version 1.1.5

• first public version with the overlay feature

Version 1.0.0rc11

• modulecmd
  • User visible changes
    • handling of set-alias in modulefile fixed
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • none
• build-system
  • User visible changes
    • none
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • none

Version 1.0.0rc10

• modulecmd
  • User visible changes
    • The term "releases" has been replaced with "release stages". The visible changes are the change of the option --all-releases to --all-release-stages, adapted help text and configuration files.
    • New configuration file Pmodules.conf to configure the default visible group, the default visible release stages and the defined releases stages. These information has been stripped from the profiles profiles.{bash,csh,zsh}.
    • module are now sorted numerically in output of module avail.
    • option -? added as alias for --help.
    • new option --glob for module search. This enables shell glob-pattern searches.
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • bugfix in removing temp-file in exit function.
    • terse output of module avail fixed.
    • broken help for sub-commands fixed.
    • missing group in output of module avail fixed.
    • broken output of module search --print-modulefiles fixed.
    • argument handling fixed after --.
    • cleanup option/argument handling.
• build-system
  • User visible changes
    • none
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • bugfixes in the functions `pbuild::version_{le,gt}
    • bugfix in recognising newer CentOS versions
• modmanage
  • User visible changes
    • complete re-implementation of (broken) modmanage

Version 1.0.0rc9

• modulecmd
  • User visible changes
    • a Pmodules module must be the first module loaded
    • new option --group|-g GROUP to list available modules in GROUP
    • align columns in output of module avail
    • remove path to Pmodules bin directory while unloading a Pmodules module
    • exclude a Pmodules module from being purged
    • follow sym-links in ROOT/GROUP/modulefiles
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • use default field separator by unsetting IFS
    • use read-only variables for all used commands with full path
    • better tmp-file creation/deletion
    • more bugfixes
• build-system
  • User visible changes
    • group hierarchy can now be defined in a config file
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • more bugfixes

Version 1.0.0rc8

• modulecmd
  • User visible changes
    • Pmodules can now be loaded as module
    • Since ${PMODULES_HOME}/bin has been removed from PATH in 1.0.0rc7 a Pmodules module must be loaded to make the build system available.
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • use system binaries in /bin:/usr/bin if possible

Version 1.0.0rc7

• modulecmd
  • User visible changes
    • add options to module search to show dependencies
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • hardcoded path in profile.cshfixed
    • bugfixes
    • Update to BASH 5.1
    • Update to Tcl 8.6.10
• build-system
  • User visible changes
    • building deprecated modules must be forced
    • support for versioned modulefiles in build-blocks: if a modulefile modulefile-X[.Y[.Z]] exists in the build-block it will be taken in favour of modulefile-
    • bootstrap/build script reviewed, --config option removed, help for all
      sub-commands added
  • Internal changes and fixes
    • installation of fallback shared libraries fixed.
    • bugfixes
• modmanage
  • User visible changes
    • Support of run-time dependencies which are required but must not be loaded

Version 1.0.0rc6

Added features:

• Support for shell sh added (#86, #90).
• Support added for a wildcard (.*) version as argument to modbuild (#78)

Fixed bugs:

• Handle empty list of be installed shared libraries fixed (#89).
• Broken 'module load' with (T)CSH fixed (#88).
• prepend instead of append Pmodules bin directory to PATH (#87).
• Bugs in bootstrapping Pmodules fixed (#82)

Version 1.0.0rc5 (since 1.0.0rc2)

Added features:

• log module load commands to system logger (#80)

Changed:

• The argument passed with the --system is not any more a synonym for kernel of the system a build process is running on. It now defines a target operating system like RHEL6, macOS1014 etc (#72).

Deprecated:

• calling pbuild::make_all in a build-script is now deprecate

Fixed bugs:

• Bugs fixed in printing load hints (#48, #49)
• Several bugs in build-systen and modulecmd fixed.
• --with option of sub-command search now accepts a comma separated list of strings
• PMODULES_ENV is exported only on content changes

1.0.0rc4

• never tagged

1.0.0rc3

• never tagged