PGI?

@bartoldeman: we try to stick to the 'official' software name; I think PGI is a lot more common than pgi, so can we change this (along with the easyconfig filename)?

My reasoning was as follows (see the comment thread for the easyblock)

The compiler itself ships with a sample modulefile named "pgi/15.7", so people are used to loading modulefiles for this compiler with the non-capitalized pgi (you can do a google search for "pgi module" and see what other sites use).

On the other hand this also seems to go with an all-lowercase convention that many HPC sites but evidently not easybuild use.

You have full control over module names in EasyBuild, so using the official name PGI here doesn't mean you can't obtain a module named pgi/.... It does mean you'll get PGI/... by default though, that's true.

A quick look at http://www.pgroup.com/ makes it clear to me that PGI is the official name; pgi is not mentioned at all on the main page (I didn't look beyond that).

Personally, I'm not convinced that going with pgi here because most sites seem to use pgi as a module name is a good reason to diverge from our policy of using 'official' software names in easyconfig files, especially since eb supports using a custom module naming scheme to consistently make all of your modules lowercase if you want to.
But, I don't want to turn this into a bikeshedding discussion either...

@rjeschmi: thoughts?

I think pgi themselves distribute modulefiles and I think they have the
lowercase name. (Away from my computer right now)

So in that sense the official name is what they use there.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015, 4:21 AM Kenneth Hoste [email protected]
wrote:

In easybuild/easyconfigs/p/pgi/pgi-15.7-GNU-4.9.2-2.25.eb
#1833 (comment)
:

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+name = 'pgi'

You have full control over module names in EasyBuild, so using the
official name PGI here doesn't mean you can't obtain a module named
pgi/.... It does mean you'll get PGI/... by default though, that's true.

A quick look at http://www.pgroup.com/ makes it clear to me that PGI is
the official name; pgi is not mentioned at all on the main page (I didn't
look beyond that).

Personally, I'm not convinced that going with pgi here because most sites
seem to use pgi as a module name is a good reason to diverge from our
policy of using 'official' software names in easyconfig files, especially
since eb supports using a custom module naming scheme to consistently
make all of your modules lowercase if you want to.
But, I don't want to turn this into a bikeshedding discussion either...

@rjeschmi https://github.com/rjeschmi: thoughts?

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@rjeschmi: not 100% sure what you mean, but I think the answer is no (currently). I do see a use for it though, e.g.:

name = 'hanythingondemand'
...
module_name = 'hod'

@rjeschmi: support for overriding the name bit of the module name is implemented in easybuilders/easybuild-framework#1389 (still WIP)

I am happy with using PGI internally everywhere, but leaving the option open to use a "pgi" lowercase modulename, as the PGI compiler supplies itself.

I am in a bit of a crunch now trying to get our easybuild structure usable by users for testing (see my list email to come about lmod lua files) -- I will have more time next week if that is ok.

The option is always there to make EB name the module any way you want, the question is just whether having it produce a module named PGI/... by default is OK...

In my view, lowercase module names (for specific modules, or all modules) is a site-specific policy.

The default policy we maintain in EB is to use the 'official' software name (i.e., the one most prevalent on the homepage), but it's not limiting in any way since we support custom module naming schemes.

I'm not sure which Lmod/Lua issue you're referring to. EasyBuild or Lmod mailing list?

W.r.t. timing: no pressure there, we still have loads of time to get PGI support included for the next EB release (planned for end of Oct'15).