Environment Modules Updates

Embed shell scripts in modulefiles

by Xavier Delaruelle
The source-sh modulefile command is introduced to source environment changes done by the evaluation of a shell script passed as argument. With newly introduced sh-to-mod sub-command resulting environment changes done by script are output...
new feature
v4.6

Translating shell scripts into modulefiles

by Xavier Delaruelle
The sh-to-mod sub-command is added to output as a modulefile content the environment changes done by the evaluation of a shell script passed as argument. sh-to-mod is especially useful for software providing a shell script for their...
new feature
v4.6

Modules 4.4.1 released

by Xavier Delaruelle
Modules version 4.4.1 is out and provides substantial performance improvements as well as fixes for the few issues spotted in the 4.4 serie. The changes introduced in this bugfix release are: Fix error and warning messages relative to...
release
v4.4
bugfix

[email protected] released

by Xavier Delaruelle
This is my great pleasure to announce the availability of the version 4.4.0 of Modules. The main target of this new version is to propose enhanced ways to specify modulefiles over the module sub-commands and the modulefile-specific Tcl...
release
v4.4

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

End of 4.2 strengthening work, road to 4.3

by Xavier Delaruelle
Version 4.2 of Modules was released in October last year with new capabilities to automatically handle dependencies between modulefiles. With these new automated mechanisms, corner cases were found which led to a more substantial bugfix...
testing
v4.2

More continuous integration

by Xavier Delaruelle
Just to let you know that the continuous integration of Modules now covers the Windows OS. More precisely the Cygwin and MSYS2 platforms on Windows. This addition completes the panel of OSes already tested after OS X and Linux (with...
testing