Environment Modules Updates

Colored output

by Xavier Delaruelle
The ability to graphically enhance some part of the produced output has been added to improve readability. Among others, error, warning and info message prefixes can be colored as well as modulepath, module alias and symbolic version...
new feature
v4.3

Non-recursive module avail search

by Xavier Delaruelle
The module avail sub-command gets two new command-line switches: --indepth and --no-indepth. These options control whether search results should recursively include or not modulefiles from directories matching search query. Let's take...
new feature
v4.3

Modulepath rc file

by Xavier Delaruelle
A .modulerc file found at the root of an enabled modulepath directory is now evaluated when modulepath is walked through to locate modulefiles. This modulepath rc file gives for instance the ability to define a module alias whose name...
new feature
v4.3

MODULES_SITECONFIG

by Xavier Delaruelle
The ability to define an additional site-specific configuration file has just been added. The MODULES_SITECONFIG environment variable has been introduced for this purpose. When set, the script file pointed by the variable is sourced (if...
new feature
v4.3

Further I/O operations optimization

by Xavier Delaruelle
After an initial work on this topic in version 4.0, I/O operations have been further optimized (to save a significant number of filesystem I/O operations made to search and evaluate modulefiles. When fully read, the content of a...
new feature
v4.3

Modules 4.2.0 released

by Xavier Delaruelle
After 6 months of development, it is a my great pleasure to announce the release of Modules version 4.2.0. This new version brings a specific focus on the dependency management between modulefiles with a push forward consistency and...
release
new feature
v4.2

Improved module message report

by Xavier Delaruelle
Module sub-commands like load, unload or switch, may perform multiple load or unload modulefile evaluations in a row. Also these kind of evaluation modes may sometimes trigger additional load or unload evaluations, when for instance a...
new feature
v4.2

Consistency of module load/unload commands in modulefile

by Xavier Delaruelle
With the module load modulefile command, a given modulefile can automatically load a modulefile it pre-requires. Similarly with the module unload modulefile command, a given modulefile can automatically unload a modulefile it conflicts...
new feature
v4.2

More small changes for 4.2

by Xavier Delaruelle
I would like to let you known about 4 small improvements made following to discussions that occurred few months ago on the mailing-list or on bug trackers. New --with-bin-search-path configure option New ./configure option added to get...
new feature
v4.2