Experimental features

First introduced in EasyBuild v2.1.0 (see EasyBuild v2.1.0 Release Notes), experimental features can only be used by enabling the --experimental configuration option.

An experimental feature indicates to users that these features may change significantly in a future release and should be used only for testing, not (yet) for production usage.

Currently enabled experimental features include:

• support for easyconfig files in YAML syntax (see Writing easyconfig files in YAML syntax)
• support for generating container recipes & images (see Generating container recipes & images)
• support for using easystack files (see Easystack files)
• support for trying to update versions of the dependencies of an easyconfig based on what is available in the robot path (see Output of eb --help)
• support for installing extensions in parallel (see Installing extensions in parallel)