HPCBIOS_06-04: Baseline Editors and Scripting Tools¶
Note
Each site MUST install and maintain the following baseline set of editors and scripting tools. New versions of these tools SHOULD be installed within 30 days of their availability on all compatible HPC systems and non-storage user-accessible support servers, and they SHOULD be installed in the users default path OR provided via modulefiles.
References for obtaining information and downloading these packages are included below. Sites MAY choose to provide certain versions via modules framework, at their discretion.
- BC Policy: HPCBIOS_06-04
- Date of Policy: 2012-12-15
N.B. Baseline shells are covered by policy [HPCBIOS_05-06]
Baseline Editors
| Emacs | http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html | MUST |
| Vi and Vim | http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net http://www.vim.org | MUST |
| Eclipse | http://www.eclipse.org | SHOULD |
| nano | http://www.nano-editor.org | SHOULD |
| Nedit | http://www.nedit.org | SHOULD |
| Pico | http://www.washington.edu/pine/ | SHOULD |
| Joe | http://freshmeat.net/projects/joe | SHOULD |
| Jove | http://freshmeat.net/projects/jove | SHOULD |
Baseline Scripting Tools
| Perl | http://www.perl.org | MUST |
| Expect | http://expect.nist.gov | SHOULD |
| Java | http://www.java.com | SHOULD |
| Ruby | http://www.ruby-lang.org | SHOULD |
| PHP | http://www.php.org | SHOULD |
| Tcl | http://www.tcl.tk | MUST |
| Tk | http://www.tcl.tk | MUST |
See also
Python and its scientific add-on components are fully covered in Baseline Configuration policy [HPCBIOS_10-02] entitled “Common Open Source High Productivity Languages.”