Alexander Grund

Hm, I don't see this as a bug. The sanity check points out a flaw in the installation as it should

That approach is quite... strange. Why not simply check the result of `numpy.test`?

As the scipy thing is still open maybe we keep this open to not loose track?

> Requiring sanity_pip_check = True in new/updated easyconfigs in PRs certainly makes perfect sense, and that's a pretty easy change to make in test/easyconfigs/easyconfigs.py. Great! Could you do that then?...

What's the status of this? Could this be made the default soon or added to the to-be-changed defaults for EB 5?

`pip list` uses the packages meta-data to show versions and name. So the major problem here is that we don't know what the name of the package is. It might...

This came up again. There already is `parse_cmd_output`parse_cmd_output in `run.py` which can be used for that. However it only warns (by default) and is sometimes not fully useful. Some use...

> Of course we'll need to be careful with suddenly treated the use of unrecognized configure options as failures, since that means breaking installations which have actually worked fine (although...

I guess the new method can be used by means of this: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/3118/files#diff-ffbfe3a62fa741e88ecd3f774ebc0f63R656-R658 But bringing that into EB would be hard as one would need to touch the "fail and...

@akesandgren As there is no further update, can we merge this?