Builder 0.1

This first release has the basic functionality required for installing a set of software packages and is used in the neural network benchmark framework beNNch. An application example is also described in Albers et al. A Modular Workflow for Performance Benchmarking of Neuronal Network Simulations (preprint), 2021.

When using this version of Builder in your work, please cite it as

Terhorst et al. (2021). Builder 0.1 – Compile scripts for local installs of software packages Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5779172

For BibTeX and other citation formats see Zenodo.

What's Changed

• Make number of cores used for compile configurable by @terhorstd in #6
• Fix quotes for paths with spaces by @terhorstd in #8
• Extend documentation by @terhorstd in #9
• enable paths with spaces and add many packages by @terhorstd in #10
• Default configuration should use pre-existing definitions by @terhorstd in #12
• Add zsh compatibility (default shell on macOS) by @jasperalbers in #17
• Add suffix handling to Builder by @ackurth in #19
• Capture and automatically load dependencies in modulefiles by @terhorstd in #5
• Add testing framework by @terhorstd in #20
• Automatically load dependent modules by @terhorstd in #22
• Add github-actions by @terhorstd in #23
• NEST 2.20.1 plan by @stinebuu in #28
• Change MODULEPATH suggestion by @terhorstd in #29
• Add documentation on dependencies by @terhorstd in #30
• Fix boost url by @terhorstd in #31
• Add build for R by @terhorstd in #32
• Add no-x as default option for R by @terhorstd in #33
• Silent force mode by @ackurth in #35
• Add zsh compatibility to plans/nest-simulator/common by @jasperalbers in #40
• Fix unzipping of software archives by @jasperalbers in #38
• Adding get only mode to Builder by @ackurth in #41
• Add option to silence interactive prompt when downloading only (--get) by @ackurth in #42
• Add plan for NEST 3.0 by @terhorstd in #39
• Update license headers by @terhorstd in #43
• Bootstrap with local environment-modules by @terhorstd in #36
• Create ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md by @terhorstd in #46
• Add citation information by @terhorstd in #48
• Fix license headers in code files by @terhorstd in #47

New Contributors

• @terhorstd made their first contribution in #6
• @jasperalbers made their first contribution in #17
• @ackurth made their first contribution in #19
• @stinebuu made their first contribution in #28
• @Kaveh01 made their first contribution in #35

Full Changelog: https://github.com/INM-6/Builder/commits/v0.1