<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">We're pretty heavily invested in Easybuild (and Lmod). It has simplified our world as we're maintaining multiple versions of _lots_ of different tools, are super-liberal about installing requested tools, and tend to be pretty aggressive about deploying new releases. It does add another layer (the easyconfigs), but there's a huge library of existing configs so you may not need to dig into those too much.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"> - Michael</div><input name="virtru-metadata" type="hidden" value="{"email-policy":{"state":"closed","expirationUnit":"days","disableCopyPaste":false,"disablePrint":false,"disableForwarding":false,"enableNoauth":false,"expires":false,"isManaged":false},"attachments":{},"compose-id":"13","compose-window":{"secure":false}}"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote" style=""><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:43 AM Faraz Hussain <<a href="mailto:info@feacluster.com">info@feacluster.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Some folks I work with are using EasyBuild but I am not sure what to <br>
make of it. I am little skeptical of tools that promise one-command <br>
installations of complex software. On the other hand I can see its <br>
benefits by saving a lot of "re-inventing the wheel".<br>
<br>
What do people think? Like everything, the answer is probably it <br>
depends on what you use it for? Or is it another layer of complexity <br>
that just makes everything more complex?<br>
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