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Removed functionality in EasyBuild v5.0

(for a full overview of changes in EasyBuild v5.0, see here)

Functionality that was deprecated a while ago has been removed:

EasyBuild bootstrap script

The EasyBuild bootstrap script has been removed.

Please see the installation page for the suggested methods for installing EasyBuild.

Experimental support for .yeb easyconfig format

Support for the experimental .yeb easyconfig format has been removed.

This format allowed easyconfigs to be specified in YAML. However, there has been no recent development of this format and little suggestion that anyone was using it at all.

accept-eula configuration setting]

(more info soon)

--wait-on-lock configuration setting

(more info soon)

is_generic_easyblock function from easybuild.framework.easyconfig.easyconfig

(more info soon)

copytree, rmtree2 functions from easybuild.filetools

(more info soon)

fetch_extension_sources method in EasyBlock class

(more info soon)

mod_exists_regex_template options in ModulesTool.exist method

(more info soon)

Toolchain.add_dependencies method

(more info soon)

disable_templating + default_fallback options in get_easyblock_class function

(more info soon)

skip_lower option from template_constant_dict function

(more info soon)

use_git_am option for apply_patch function

(more info soon)

(more info soon)

log_error option in which function

(more info soon)

descr option for simple_option function

(more info soon)

dummy toolchain

(more info soon)

Support for 32-bit targets

(more info soon)