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Hi,

it would be nice if there was an example on how to set an environment variable.
I figured since you are eval'ing the output, I should write something like
echo export AMSHOME=/tools/cds/incisive_15.20.007_Linux; (with the semicolon for separating multiple lines), but it doesn't seem to work for me. It may be that this is because my $SHELL is set to tcsh, and I explicitly started bash --login?

If you are looking for ideas to make adoption of albion easier, one would be to port the createmodule.py script from Environment Modules over. See https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/2012-October/893142.html

For my use case however, this alone would not help, since setting a project up here does not just involve a single script, but some interactive menu structure thing.
I thought of two invocations of createmodule.py, one before entering the project, one after, where createmodule.py would use Python's pickle to save/restore the old state to/from a file. But AFAIK, pickle is not guaranteed to be compatible between different Python versions, so maybe that's not the best option if entering a project changes the default Python version...

Having such a script would even make switching from modules to albion easy - just use createalbion.py "module load foo/1.23".

In order to write shell tab completion code for e.g. compgen, it is helpful to get a list of space-separated items from somewhere. It's best if "somewhere" is the tool to be completed itself.
So if I wanted to complete the configs, it would be good if albion's list-configs would either be modified to return that list (and print the current format with list-configs-verbose), or add a new command like list-configs-for-completion.

The question now is what to return there - taking the example shipped with albion, it could be "mypath/1.0", a format which albion should then be able to digest, or just "mypath", with the "1.0" to be completed in a second step, which would then need another command like list-versions.

(Same for the envs of course.)

(And don't let this ticket spoil your vacation, have fun :)