Thanks for all the replies. I am certainly going to invest some time
learning it and giving it a full test-drive. I am curious though how
often are these builds successful? For example say a user wants
openfoam, cp2k or wrf. How often does the user say the build is
missing the functionality they use? And if it is missing, do you go
back and build from source or try and debug the easybuild files?
My approach to installing software is work with the user 1-1 to
understand what they are trying to do and what features they need.
Software like wrf has many components, each with many configurable
options. I am not sure I would trust a 1-command approach to all that.
Also while building from source you discover advanced options. For
example you would learn that some features do not support mpi. I think
one would miss all that if you just black-box it, no?
Quoting Miguel Costa <migueldiasco...@gmail.com>:
Dear Faraz,
to me, easyBuild (or spack) is not merely another build/install tool.
The know-how about building optimized scientific software that is embedded
in easyconfigs and easyblocks (or spack packages), and their respective
communities, is reason enough to get on board (and contribute back).
The HPC world is a better place with them around, growing in scope, and
attracting more people.
My two (sing) cents,
Miguel
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:43 PM Faraz Hussain <i...@feacluster.com> wrote:
Some folks I work with are using EasyBuild but I am not sure what to
make of it. I am little skeptical of tools that promise one-command
installations of complex software. On the other hand I can see its
benefits by saving a lot of "re-inventing the wheel".
What do people think? Like everything, the answer is probably it
depends on what you use it for? Or is it another layer of complexity
that just makes everything more complex?
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