I have not put in the time to try Spack. But the hierarchical Lmod support of EasyBuild is a big win, in terms of converting over our sysadmins. I got the sense from the docs that modules were not as well supported / thought through in Spack.
What I, as a user, really want is a single system with all the best features of both --- and a user community united behind it. I don't really care whether that happens by Spack implementing what EasyBuild does well, or by EasyBuild implementing what Spack does well. -- Elizabeth > Or people could just use Spack :). We generate modules but do not > presuppose them to exist. I think it's a good policy. > > If one is successful in avoiding LD_LIBRARY_PATH (an excellent goal), then > RPATH and RUNPATH are equilalent. In that case, maybe RUNPATH would be a > good idea --- it would allow the user to override RUNPATH by setting > LD_LIBRARY_PATH in special cases; for example, to temporarily test things > with a different version of a library. > >
