2nd easybuild hackathon wishlist

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EasyBuild User Wishlists

Wishlist by Fotis

#174/#121/#102 ; OSdependencies; it has become major priority to swap our info: http://hpcbios.readthedocs.org/en/latest/HPCBIOS_2011-90.html
Get local hands to work on items of issues: #333, #332, #269, #236, #192, #134
Users have fun with apps from "HPCBIOS_2011-97: Climate Science" & pointers
Users have fun with apps from "HPCBIOS_2011-94: Bioinformatics" & pointers
allow _vars for future extensions (notably I need to implement: _alt_versions)
need for a shared repo for software tarballs (mpiBLAST anyone?) related: #141
#214/#213, consider using the functionality of git for software checksums!!!
minors: #209, #271, #197, #294, #213, #215, #201, #202, #189, #130, #111, #198
Adjust: http://hpcbios.readthedocs.org/en/latest/HPC_Baseline_Configuration.html
discuss options for EasyDoc ; I'd like to promote Sphinx ; your takes?
allow to satisfy requirement levels like "MUST", "SHOULD", "MAY" in the policies

Details

#333 Provide popular PRACE packages, ensure they are available as a meta-module
#332 Review external guidelines for HPC software building
#269 add support for CBench
#236 Provide popular HPC-BC packages, ensure they are available as a meta-module
#235 Provide popular PETTT ACE packages, ensure they are available as a meta-module
#192 add support for building profiling tools
#134 add support for ARPACK-ng

minors

#209 enhance support for module classes # example: bio
#271 fix a manpage for EasyBuild
#197 add support for building/installing lzo compression tools
#294 Naming Conventions from automatically generated environment variables
#213 add support for skipping build steps # this allows to avoid /bin/true hack
#215 support specifying custom build procedure from easyconfig
#201 add support for building/installing PerfExpert
#202 add support for building/installing Open|SpeedShop
#189 add support for installing EasyBuild with EasyBuild
#130 support specifying setenv statements to be added to module file, in easyconfig
#111 MTL4 download url is broken
#198 make EasyBuild add patches to easyconfig repository