[Q-e-developers] Final QE v6.0 packaging

[Biswajit Santra]

When will the 6.0 version be released officially?

Thanks,
Biswajit

Biswajit Santra
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http://www.princeton.edu/~bsantra/

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Filippo SPIGA <
filippo.spiga at quantum-espresso.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> tomorrow evenng I will tag v6.0 and then create the final packages. There
> is always work to do, there are always last minute fixes but the majority
> of the work is done thanks to all the developers and contributors!
>
> QE v6.0 is a milestone for multiple reasons:
> - the presence of common "specialized libraries" used by many packages:
> "FFTXlib", "LAXlib" and "LR_modules"
> - initial support of HDF5 (not perfect but it is there, first step done!)
> - the presence of a well-defined XML schema and initial support of
> input/output in XML format (not perfect but it is there, first step done!)
>
> The packaging procedure is changing as well, as it has been anticipated in
> this mailing-list. Below the lisf ot the packages that will appear on
> QE-FORGE:
> - "qe-6.0.tar.gz" contains the following:
> - "examples-6.0.tar.gz" will contain all the examples grouped in one
> single place
> - "test-suite-6.0.tar.gz" will contain all the tests for validation
> purposes
>
> plus other third-parties packages that QE will be able to download and
> compile automatically (GIPAW, YAMBO, West, Wannier90, WanT).
>
>
> For the examples, we will collect all of them into a single tar.gz *but*
> in the SVN we will keep the current structure. Now the directory structure
> is going to bethis:
> {COUPLE,CPV,EPW,GWW,NEB,PHonon,PP,PWCOND,QHA,TDDFPT,
> XSpectra,PWgui}/examples
>
> "examples-6.0.tar.gz" will contain the a folder with all the various
> examples separated by packages, more or less like this:
> Examples/{COUPLE,CPV,EPW,GWW,NEB,PHonon,PlotPhon,PP,PWCOND,
> QHA,TDDFPT,XSpectra,PWgui}
>
>
> A separate "examples-6.0.tar.gz" package will achieve two things: 1) a
> light "qe-6.0.tar.gz" package that contains only source code and
> documentation (~32 MByte); 2) the ability to track via QE-FORGE how many
> people are looking at the examples explicitly.
>
> So, in summary, QE v6.0 is happening. Starting from next week we will
> start gathering requirements and ideas to define the roadmap toward QE v7!
>
>
> Stay tuned!
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Filippo SPIGA ~ Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation ~ http://www.quantum-espresso.
> org
>
>
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