Nobody was trying to make a statement here, Gus - I was only quoting something based on the last known repo of which I was aware. If the modules folks moved to Github, then they might want to make that a little more obvious. :-/
Lmod vs modules - I couldn't care less. My understanding is that TACC wrote their own because of the perception that modules was no longer active, but I can't say for sure :-) On Aug 5, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Gus Correa <g...@ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote: > Hi Ralph and list > > I am no developer, but my impression is that, > paraphrasing Mark Twain, > the reports about the death of the > Environment Modules (http://modules.sourceforge.net/) > package have been exaggerated. > That presumed death/obsolescence has been > repeated a few times on the OMPI list, > which has a big intersection with the Environment Modules > actual and potential users, > a statement which IMHO is inaccurate, to say the least. > > The Environment Modules repository has 2014 entries: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/modules/git/ci/master/tree/ > > The Environment Modules mailing list is active as well: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/modules-interest > http://sourceforge.net/p/modules/mailman/modules-interest/ > > The Environment Modules package user base is not negligible, > including many universities, research centers, national labs, > ans private companies, in the US and around the world. > How does the user base of LMod compare? > > Regardless of any virtues that LMod may have, > currently I don't see any reason to switch to LMod, > install everything over again, troubleshoot it, > learn Lua, migrate my modules from Tcl, > educate my users and convince them to use a new > package to achieve the same exact thing that they currently have, > and in the end gain little if any > relevant/useful/new functionality. > > My two cents of opinion > Gus Correa > > > On 08/05/2014 12:54 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: >> Check the repo - hasn't been touched in a very long time >> >> On Aug 5, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Fabricio Cannini <fcann...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 05-08-2014 13:10, Ralph Castain wrote: >>>> Since modules isn't a supported s/w package any more, you might consider >>>> using LMOD instead: >>>> >>>> https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/lmod >>> >>> Modules isn't supported anymore? :O >>> >>> Could you please send a link about it ? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> us...@open-mpi.org >>> Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >>> Link to this post: >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2014/08/24918.php >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> Link to this post: >> http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2014/08/24919.php >> > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2014/08/24924.php
