On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:47 PM Jed Brown <[email protected]> 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 -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
