Environment Modules Updates

Error stack trace

by Xavier Delaruelle
Error messages will now embed a stack trace for unknown errors to help localize the root cause of issues. This change applies to modulefile evaluation: Loading foo/1.2 Module ERROR: add-path cannot handle path equals to...
v4.5
new feature

Improved Windows support

by Xavier Delaruelle
A new option to the ./configure script named --enable-windows-support is introduced to install additional files relative to the enablement of Modules on the Windows platform. When set, this option installs module.cmd, ml.cmd and envml...
new feature
v4.5

JSON format output

by Xavier Delaruelle
The -j and --json command line switches are added for the avail, list, savelist, whatis and search module sub-commands. When set, the output result of these sub-commands is rendered in JSON format: $ module avail --json bar | python...
new feature
v4.5

ml command

by Xavier Delaruelle
The ml command is added to Modules. ml is a frontend to the module command that reduces the number of characters to type to trigger module actions. With no argument provided ml is equivalent to module list, ml foo corresponds to module...
new feature
v4.5

Extended default

by Xavier Delaruelle
The extended default mechanism has been introduced to help selecting a module when only the first numbers in its version are specified. Starting portion of the version, part separated from the rest of the version string by a . character...
new feature
v4.4

Specify modules in a case insensitive manner

by Xavier Delaruelle
The ability to match module name in a case insensitive manner has been added. This feature can be enabled at different level with the following values set to the icase configuration option: never: a case sensitive match is applied in...
new feature
v4.4

Modules 4.3.0 released

by Xavier Delaruelle
Modules version 4.3.0 is out. This new version adds bunch of new features to tailor module to your needs. It is backward-compatible with previous version 4 releases and primarily adds features and fixes bugs. Major new features...
release
new feature
v4.3

Control module command verbosity

by Xavier Delaruelle
The ability to control message verbosity has been added so module command can be configured whether it should display more or less information. Available verbosity levels from the least to the most verbose are: silent: turn off error...
new feature
v4.3

Storing initialization config files in etcdir

by Xavier Delaruelle
When initializing the module command in a shell session, initialization configuration files stored in the defined configuration directory are taken into account if present instead of the configuration files stored in the initialization...
new feature
v4.3