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+# Copyright Spack Project Developers. See COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class Alps(CMakePackage):
+    """
+    The ALPS project (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations) aims at providing generic
+    parallel algorithms for classical and quantum lattice models and provides utility classes and
+    algorithm for many others.
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/ALPSim/ALPS"
+    url = "https://github.com/ALPSim/ALPS/archive/refs/tags/v2.3.3-beta.5.tar.gz"
+
+    maintainers("Sinan81")
+
+    license("BSL-1.0", checked_by="Sinan81")
+
+    version(
+        "2.3.3-beta.6", sha256="eb0c8115b034dd7a9dd585d277c4f86904ba374cdbdd130545aca1c432583b68"
+    )
+
+    depends_on("c", type="build")
+    depends_on("cxx", type="build")
+    depends_on("fortran", type="build")
+
+    # update version constraint on every boost release after providing version & checksum info
+    # in resources dictionary below
+    depends_on(
+        "boost@:1.87 +chrono +date_time +filesystem +iostreams +mpi +numpy"
+        "+program_options +python +regex +serialization +system +test +thread +timer"
+    )
+    depends_on("fftw")
+    depends_on("hdf5 ~mpi+hl")
+    depends_on("lapack")
+    depends_on("python", type=("build", "link", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-numpy", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-scipy", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-matplotlib", type=("build", "run"))
+
+    extends("python")
+
+    # See https://github.com/ALPSim/ALPS/issues/6#issuecomment-2604912169
+    # for why this is needed
+    resources = {
+        # boost version, shasum
+        "1.87.0": "af57be25cb4c4f4b413ed692fe378affb4352ea50fbe294a11ef548f4d527d89",
+        "1.86.0": "1bed88e40401b2cb7a1f76d4bab499e352fa4d0c5f31c0dbae64e24d34d7513b",
+        "1.85.0": "7009fe1faa1697476bdc7027703a2badb84e849b7b0baad5086b087b971f8617",
+        "1.84.0": "cc4b893acf645c9d4b698e9a0f08ca8846aa5d6c68275c14c3e7949c24109454",
+        "1.83.0": "6478edfe2f3305127cffe8caf73ea0176c53769f4bf1585be237eb30798c3b8e",
+        "1.82.0": "a6e1ab9b0860e6a2881dd7b21fe9f737a095e5f33a3a874afc6a345228597ee6",
+        "1.81.0": "71feeed900fbccca04a3b4f2f84a7c217186f28a940ed8b7ed4725986baf99fa",
+        "1.80.0": "1e19565d82e43bc59209a168f5ac899d3ba471d55c7610c677d4ccf2c9c500c0",
+    }
+
+    for boost_version, boost_checksum in resources.items():
+        resource(
+            when="^boost@{0}".format(boost_version),
+            name="boost_source_files",
+            url="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/{0}/boost_{1}.tar.bz2".format(
+                boost_version, boost_version.replace(".", "_")
+            ),
+            sha256=boost_checksum,
+            destination="",
+            placement="boost_source_files",
+        )
+
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        args = []
+        # Boost_ROOT_DIR option is replaced by Boost_SRC_DIR as of 2.3.3-beta.6
+        args.append(
+            "-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS={0}".format(
+                self.compiler.cxx14_flag
+                + " -fpermissive -DBOOST_NO_AUTO_PTR -DBOOST_FILESYSTEM_NO_CXX20_ATOMIC_REF"
+                + " -DBOOST_TIMER_ENABLE_DEPRECATED"
+            )
+        )
+        args.append(
+            "-DBoost_SRC_DIR={0}".format(join_path(self.stage.source_path, "boost_source_files"))
+        )
+        return args
+
+    @run_after("install")
+    def relocate_python_stuff(self):
+        pyalps_dir = join_path(python_platlib, "pyalps")
+        with working_dir(self.prefix):
+            copy_tree("pyalps", pyalps_dir)
+        with working_dir(self.prefix.lib):
+            copy_tree("pyalps", pyalps_dir)
+            # in pip installed pyalps package, xml dir is provided under platlib/pyalps
+            copy_tree("xml", join_path(pyalps_dir, "xml"))