[petsc-dev] --download and spack

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:47 PM Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> We're currently maintaining a (somewhat clumsy and limited, albeit
> functional) package manager in the form of the --download functionality.
> What do people think of outsourcing this to Spack, which would handle
> dependency resolution and report includes/libraries to PETSc?  That
> would enable reuse of installed packages between different PETSC_ARCH
> and be more reliable regarding upgrade/downgrade when switching
> branches.
>

My only experiences with Spack have been pretty negative, and its not clear
to me that this will be supported long term or just dropped eventually.

   Matt
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