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Minimum supported Lmod Version - EasyBuild 5 #871

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Work has started on EasyBuild 5 and we, the EasyBuild maintainers, are requesting community feedback on some potential changes. If you will be impacted by this proposed change then please leave feedback below.

Proposed Change

Change the minimum supported Lmod version to be 7.

This proposed change only relates to supported Lmod version. No change is proposed for support of other module tools.

Background

Lmod 6 is old - the most recent release being several years ago. Use of Lmod 6 is deprecated in EasyBuild and the intention is to remove support in EasyBuild 5.

Benefits

  • Motivate community to adopt Lmod 8.x
  • Makes the change notified by the current deprecation warning
  • Simplify CI test configurations

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