5.0.0-alpha

• Remove deprecated createmodule.sh and createmodule.py tools as shell script to modulefile conversion is now achieved with the sh-to-mod sub-command.
• Remove mention of the init* sub-commands in module usage message to put focus on the collection handling sub-commands.
• Do not declare anymore the chdir, module, module-trace, module-verbosity, module-user and module-log commands under the modulerc Tcl interpreter as no-op commands. A clear error message is obtained if these commands are still used in modulerc files instead of silently ignoring them.
• Return by default an empty string rather _UNDEFINED on getenv modulefile command if passed environment variable is not defined.
• Align empty directory name error message obtained on use sub-command with message obtained when module or collection name is empty.
• Accept non-existent modulepath on use sub-command.
• Install: installation option --enable-auto-handling is set on by default which enables the automated module handling mode (see MODULES_AUTO_HANDLING).
• Install: installation option --enable-extended-default is set on by default which allows partial module version specification (see MODULES_EXTENDED_DEFAULT).
• Install: installation option --enable-advanced-version-spec is set on by default which activates the Advanced module version specifiers
• Install: installation option --enable-color is set on by default which enables the auto output color mode (see MODULES_COLOR).
• Install: installation option --with-icase is set to search by default to activate case insensitive match on search contexts (see MODULES_ICASE).
• Install: installation option --enable-new-features has been reset following major version change as all the options it implied are now enabled by default.
• Install: installation option --enable-set-shell-startup is set off by default but could be enabled once installed through the initrc configuration file.
• Install: installation option --with-initconf-in is set to etcdir by default to locate configuration files in the directory designated by the --etcdir option. Therefore the initialization configuration file is named initrc in this directory, and the modulepath-specific configuration file is named modulespath.
• Only look at configuration files found in the location designated by the --etcdir or --initdir option (depending on the value of --with-initconf-in option). Configuration files were previously searched in both locations.
• Install: remove installation option --enable-compat-version. Compatiblity version co-installation is discontinued. switchml shell function and MODULES_USE_COMPAT_VERSION are thus removed as well.
• Testsuite: introduce the non-regression quick test mode. When the QUICKTEST environment variable is set to 1, only the main tests from the non-regression testsuite are run. When first argument of the mt script is quick, tests are run in quick mode.
• Install: run non-regression testsuite in quick mode in RPM spec file.
• Rename the environment variables that are used by Modules to track loaded environment state (variables whose name starts with MODULES_LM). A __ prefix is added to the name of these variables to indicate that they are intended for internal use only.
• Rename the environment variables used to indirectly pass to modulecmd.tcl the value of variables set in quarantine (variables whose name finishes with _modquar). A __MODULES_QUAR_ prefix is applied to the name of these variables instead of the _modquar suffix to indicate they are intended for Modules internal use of only.
• Update Tcl requirement to version 8.5 as Tcl 8.4 is deprecated since a long time and this version is not available anymore on recent OS distributions. Update internal code of modulecmd.tcl to take benefit from the features brought by Tcl 8.5.