ecFlow's documentation is now on readthedocs!

Please go to https://ecflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

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Migration to ecflow 5 series is simple, if you are using ecFlow version 4.7.0 or later. 

  • Stop all jobs in old server, then terminate. Check that the checkpoint file was written.
  • Module load ecflow/5.3.1
  • Start the new ecflow 5.3.1 server. It will automatically read the  checkpoint file that were created in version 4.7.X and above.

 If you are using earlier versions, then :

module load ecflow/4.6.0           
ecflow_client --migrate > old.def

module load ecflow/5.3.1 
ecflow_start.sh                 # start 5.3.1 server
ecflow_client --load old.def    # load the the definition


However the client/server/GUI between ecflow 4.x.x and ecflow 5.X.Y are not compatible.

Please see Switching between ecFlowUI version 4 and 5


The python api remains backward compatible.

Package Retirement

ecFlowview

The old GUI ecflowview will be retired. 

Trying to maintain two GUI's is to expensive.

ecflowview is MOTIF based, and many Linux distributions have dropped support for it.

QT4

Support for QT4 will be dropped.

Tying to maintain compatibility with QT4 and QT5 is too prohibitive. Some features like QTCharts are only available in QT5

Misc

ECF_NODE can no longer be used in script files(.ecf), it has been replaced with ECF_HOST


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