<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:47 PM Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org">jed@jedbrown.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We're currently maintaining a (somewhat clumsy and limited, albeit<br>
functional) package manager in the form of the --download functionality.<br>
What do people think of outsourcing this to Spack, which would handle<br>
dependency resolution and report includes/libraries to PETSc? That<br>
would enable reuse of installed packages between different PETSC_ARCH<br>
and be more reliable regarding upgrade/downgrade when switching<br>
branches.<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div>My only experiences with Spack have been pretty negative, and its not clear</div><div>to me that this will be supported long term or just dropped eventually.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>