On 2019-08-20 16:19, Steven Taylor wrote:
I like the idea of environment modules (or refresh). What's the
downside?
For modules? Not much really...
Time spent writing modules from scratch if one of the automated systems
isn't used.
In a really complex environment I suppose it might be possible to hit
the
environment block size limit (sum of all variable lengths) of 32767
characters.
With Lmod itself and 3 modules loaded:
set | wc
is 5183. So there is still a lot of space left. (Yes, that is only an
approximate measure of usage inside the block.)
PATH related issues might be a PITA to diagnose with 20 or 30
directories on the
included. (Lmod, as far as I can tell, offers no protection against
name collisions in included packages.)
My bigger gripe is with the "portability" solutions which are the
equivalent of defining yet another operating system environment and then
building within it. That is another variation on this theme:
https://xkcd.com/927/
Regards,
David Mathog
mat...@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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