[Lmod-announce] Lmod 8.1: Extended Default and support for integrated TCL in a stable release.

[Announcing n. v. of L. <lmo...@li...>]

I am releasing Lmod 8.1.  This is mostly a bug fix release of Lmod over 8.0.  It does include the "Extended Default" mechanism that was released in 8.0.7.  Sites that run a non-hierarchical module layout may wish to disable the Extended Default mechanism.

As I pointed out when I released 8.0.7, this feature is to make it easier to deal with naming conventions where the version string is long.   For example assume that a site has multiple versions of the intel compiler where intel/18.0.3 is the default.

     intel/16.0.3
     intel/17.0.1
     intel/17.0.2
     intel/18.0.1
     intel/18.0.3 (D)
     intel/18.0.4

Then:

   $  module load intel/16  # => loads intel/16.0.3
   $  module load intel/17  # => loads intel/17.0.2
   $  module load intel/18  # => load intel/18.0.3
   $  module load intel       # => load intel/18.0.3

The idea is that the intel/16 picks the "best" intel/16.* and intel/17 picks the best 17.*  The last two cases the best 18 version is the default (namely 18.0.3)

The lmod.sf.net<http://lmod.sf.net> site has a tar ball of Lmod 8.1 and the Lmod logos and as always github.com/TACC/Lmod<http://github.com/TACC/Lmod> has the latest version.

Best,
Robert.

--
Robert McLay, Ph.D.
Manager of Sottware Tools, HPC @ TACC
mc...@ta...<mailto:mc...@ta...>