Conference notes for 2022 04 19

Agenda for 2022 04 19 at 16:30 UTC (9:30 US Central)

• Build and Debug a new Lmod Test
• Release of Lmod 8.7: Change in TCL puts stdout
• Q & A

Attendees

• Robert McLay (TACC)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
• Matthew Cawood (TACC)
• Åke Sandgren (Umeå University)
• Chirag Patel (UT Austin)

Lmod 8.7

• version bump to 8.7 because of changes in support for printing to stdout

Creating new tests for Lmod

• slides available at https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/blob/master/my_docs/22/lmod_zoom_mtg_2022_04_19/presentation.pdf

Next meeting

• Tue 3 May 2022 at 09:30 Central US (14:30 UTC)
• topic: support for break statement in Tcl module files
• ideas for future topics:
  • show how Lmod processes a module load command, stepping through the codebase
  • birds-eye view of the Lmod codebase, how it's structured, internal data structures, etc.