Conference call notes 20190123

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Notes on the 118th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Jan 23rd 2019 (17:00 - 18:00 CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):

• Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Victor Holanda (CSCS, Switzerland)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)
• Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)
• Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University, US)

Agenda

• updates on upcoming EasyBuild v3.8.1
• test report for proposed 2019a common toolchains
• follow-up on moving Python to GCCcore
• update on porting EasyBuild to Python 3
• Q&A

Outlook to EasyBuild v3.8.1

• ETA: by EUM19
• framework
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/milestone/62
  • highlights:
    • PRs targeted for 3.8.1 have been merged
    • not planning to merge anything else for 3.8.1 (unless a major issue pops up)
  • TODO
    • (none)
• easyblocks
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/milestone/53
  • highlights:
    • adding include/python<version> to $CPATH in Python module was merged + reverted
      • because of problems that surfaced with ROOT
      • cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1620
    • several software-specific minor updates/fixes
  • TODO:
    • handling of $LDSHARED in PythonPackage easyblock
• easyconfigs
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/milestone/56
  • highlights:
    • various software updates/additions, minor software-specific bug fixes
  • TODO:
    • 2019a toolchains are considered a blocker for EasyBuild 3.8.1

Test report for proposed 2019a common toolchains

• see https://gist.github.com/boegel/68b542fa564fd370e8b0e7710a320f6f

Follow-up on moving Python to GCCcore

• cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/7463

Update on porting EasyBuild to Python 3

• good progress in 4.x branch (which is currently up-to-date with develop)
• see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/issues?q=label%3Apython3+is%3Aclosed
• TODO:
  • make full set of framework tests pass on top of Python 3
  • then move on to easyblock (mostly w.r.t. import vsc.*?)
  • nothing to do for easyconfigs?

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