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Environments are nowm by default, created with views. When activated, if an environment includes a view, this view will be added to `PATH`, `CPATH`, and other shell variables to expose the Spack environment in the user's shell. Example: ``` spack env create e1 #by default this will maintain a view in the directory Spack maintains for the env spack env create e1 --with-view=/abs/path/to/anywhere spack env create e1 --without-view ``` The `spack.yaml` manifest file now looks like this: ``` spack: specs: - python view: true #or false, or a string ``` These commands can be used to control the view configuration for the active environment, without hand-editing the `spack.yaml` file: ``` spack env view enable spack env view envable /abs/path/to/anywhere spack env view disable ``` Views are automatically updated when specs are installed to an environment. A view only maintains one copy of any package. An environment may refer to a package multiple times, in particular if it appears as a dependency. This PR establishes a prioritization for which environment specs are added to views: a spec has higher priority if it was concretized first. This does not necessarily exactly match the order in which specs were added, for example, given `X->Z` and `Y->Z'`: ``` spack env activate e1 spack add X spack install Y # immediately concretizes and installs Y and Z' spack install # concretizes X and Z ``` In this case `Z'` will be favored over `Z`. Specs in the environment must be concrete and installed to be added to the view, so there is another minor ordering effect: by default the view maintained for the environment ignores file conflicts between packages. If packages are not installed in order, and there are file conflicts, then the version chosen depends on the order. Both ordering issues are avoided if `spack install`/`spack add` and `spack install <spec>` are not mixed. |
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Spack
Spack is a multi-platform package manager that builds and installs multiple versions and configurations of software. It works on Linux, macOS, and many supercomputers. Spack is non-destructive: installing a new version of a package does not break existing installations, so many configurations of the same package can coexist.
Spack offers a simple "spec" syntax that allows users to specify versions and configuration options. Package files are written in pure Python, and specs allow package authors to write a single script for many different builds of the same package. With Spack, you can build your software all the ways you want to.
See the Feature Overview for examples and highlights.
To install spack and your first package, make sure you have Python. Then:
$ git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
$ cd spack/bin
$ ./spack install libelf
Documentation
Full documentation for Spack is the first place to look.
Try the Spack Tutorial, to learn how to use spack, write packages, or deploy packages for users at your site.
See also:
- Technical paper and slides on Spack's design and implementation.
- Short presentation from the Getting Scientific Software Installed BOF session at Supercomputing 2015.
Get Involved!
Spack is an open source project. Questions, discussion, and contributions are welcome. Contributions can be anything from new packages to bugfixes, or even new core features.
Mailing list
If you are interested in contributing to spack, join the mailing list. We're using Google Groups for this:
Slack channel
Spack has a Slack channel where you can chat about all things Spack:
Sign up here to get an invitation mailed to you.
You can follow @spackpm on Twitter for
updates. Also, feel free to @mention us in in questions or comments
about your own experience with Spack.
Contributions
Contributing to Spack is relatively easy. Just send us a
pull request.
When you send your request, make develop the destination branch on the
Spack repository.
Your PR must pass Spack's unit tests and documentation tests, and must be PEP 8 compliant. We enforce these guidelines with Travis CI. To run these tests locally, and for helpful tips on git, see our Contribution Guide.
Spack uses a rough approximation of the
Git Flow
branching model. The develop branch contains the latest
contributions, and master is always tagged and points to the latest
stable release.
Authors
Many thanks go to Spack's contributors.
Spack was created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov.
Citing Spack
If you are referencing Spack in a publication, please cite the following paper:
- Todd Gamblin, Matthew P. LeGendre, Michael R. Collette, Gregory L. Lee, Adam Moody, Bronis R. de Supinski, and W. Scott Futral. The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos. In Supercomputing 2015 (SC’15), Austin, Texas, November 15-20 2015. LLNL-CONF-669890.
License
Spack is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0). Users may choose either license, at their option.
All new contributions must be made under both the MIT and Apache-2.0 licenses.
See LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-APACHE, COPYRIGHT, and NOTICE for details.
SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
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