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Add Environment Modules to Build and software organization tools #535

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Reintroduce Environment Modules software which was removed by 7f947f8. Removal was due to the project being hosted on SourceForge. Project is now primarily managed from GitHub.

Also take this opportunity to clarify name of Lmod software (in the same category).

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Please take some time to answer the following questions as best you can:

  • Why is it awesome?

Environment Modules helps to manage large software catalog and provide various versions of the same software. It is a tool coming from the HPC world and deployed on most supercomputers to help their user to handle their software set.

  • Have you used it? For how long?

I use it since 15 years

  • Is this in a personal or professional setup?

You can use this software either on your local laptop or on a supercomputer environment. So it may be used on both setup kind.

  • How many devices/users/services/... do you manage with it?

Environment Modules enables software in user environment. With this tool sysadmins in HPC centers usually provides 1000x of software to their users through this tool.

  • Biggest pros/cons compared to other solutions?

Environment Modules was first released in 1991. Since then other implementation of the module concept were published. Most popular of these alternatives is Lmod which is also listed here.

Environment Modules is actively developed, tested and provides advanced features like dependency resolution of the modulefiles to load in user environment.

Biggest cons is that the modulefiles are written in Tcl, which is a scripting language people are often afraid of. But as soon as they overcome this initial fear, writing modulefiles is quite easy (this is just simple Tcl scripts).

  • Any other comments about your use case, things you've found excellent, limitations you've encountered... ?

Nothing more

Reintroduce Environment Modules software which was removed by 7f947f8.
Removal was due to the project being hosted on SourceForge. Project is
now primarily managed from GitHub.

Also take this opportunity to clarify name of Lmod software (in the same
category).
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Interesting

@nodiscc nodiscc merged commit b0583be into awesome-foss:master Sep 24, 2023
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