Environment Modules Updates

Modules@latest (aka 4.5.0) released

by Xavier Delaruelle
This is it. After 3 months of development, version 4.5.0 of Modules is available. It is as always backward-compatible with previous version 4 releases and primarily adds features and fixes bugs. Major new features introduced in v4.5.0...
release
v4.5

Automatic default and latest symbolic versions

by Xavier Delaruelle
When the implicit default mechanism and the advanced module version specifiers are both enabled, a default and a latest symbolic versions are automatically defined for each module name. This new feature gives the ability to select the...
v4.5
new feature

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

Modules 4.2.5 released

by Xavier Delaruelle
Modules version 4.2.5 has just been released. This new release provides fixes for the issues found recently on the 4.2 serie. The changes introduced in this bugfix release are: Correctly escape `?` character in shell alias. (fix issue...
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bugfix
v4.2

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

Modules 4.2.4 released

by Xavier Delaruelle
Modules version 4.2.4 has just been released. This new release in the 4.2 series has a specific focus on improving the readability of the warning, error and informational messages reported when multiple load or unload modulefile...
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bugfix
v4.2