warning messages in lmod - unloading non-existent modules

[mcytowski]

Dear Lmod developers,
would you accept a change similar to the one proposed here for Environment Modules: cea-hpc/modules#187
Basically, it would be nice to have a warning message printed out e.g. when a given module does not exist and you are trying to unload it. Or in general: when you are trying to unload a module which is not loaded or load a module which is already loaded.
Kind regards,
Maciej Cytowski

[rtmclay]

I would prefer not to support this feature this way. Lmod already has a tracing feature. I have modified it so that it reports the state of the module Lmod is unloading: active, inactive, non-existant

So if you do:

% module -T unload foo
running: module -T unload foo
  Unloading: foo (state: non-existant) (fn: nil)

I am assuming that you want this feature for debugging modulefiles. In this case this seem reasonable to me. This feature is available in Lmod 7.8.4

[rtmclay]

I am closing this issue since it has been sitting for 16 days.

[mcytowski]

thanks for explanation and apologies for not replying earlier. And yes, it can be closed.