Create an option for a developer mode

[ocaisa]

It would be nice to support a developer mode, which would allow developers to use EasyBuild as part of their own build processes. One way to do this would be make the option (--developer)

• Take a copy of the current directory as unpacked sources
• Jump straight to the build step
• Install software and module to a temporary location

[branfosj]

A counter suggestion would be a --start (equivalent to --stop). I'm not sure I can think of why we'd only let this jump to the build step and not have an option to start at the configure or test steps instead.

[ocaisa]

Sorry, I misspoke, I mean jump to right after the extraction step

[ocaisa]

I'm not sure about --start as obviously the build step has a good chance of affecting the contents of the working directory, and you may not want that. At least if you make a copy, you aren't taking any risks and what you do is still reproducible (to an extent).