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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Mpl(CMakePackage):
+    """A C++17 message passing library based on MPI."""
+
+    homepage    = "https://rabauke.github.io/mpl/html/"
+    git         = "https://github.com/rabauke/mpl.git"
+    url         = "https://github.com/rabauke/mpl/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.tar.gz"
+    maintainers = ['rabauke']
+
+    version('develop', branch='master')
+    version('0.1', tag='v0.1')
+
+    depends_on('mpi')