Reframe 2.5

Reframe 2.5 release notes

API changes

• sourcesdir may now be None in which case the regression test is resourceless

Framework

• Treat properly stage and output directories if they alias each other
• Improvements of the internal launcher API to allow users to create custom launchers
• Addition of a VisitLauncher for the VisIt visualisation software
• Support for custom execution modes
• --notimestamp and --timefmt options replaced by a single --timestamp TIMEFMT option; no timestamp directory components are appended anymore
• Bug fix: crash when printing system listing and the current system was not auto-detected
• Bug fix: Environment names with slashes are now treated correctly
• Bug fix: asynchronous execution policy unit tests are now more robust
• Bug fix: job launcher options were not emitted in the job script file