JAX: add v0.4.28

[adamjstewart]

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[jonas-eschle]

Seems good to me! One thing:

The Windows build is now built with Clang instead of MSVC.

Shouldn't affect us AFAIU, right?

[adamjstewart]

Nope, the user can choose both compilers. Not even sure if this builds on Windows yet. We'll likely add Windows CI in the future to test.

[jonas-eschle]

We'll likely add Windows CI in the future to test.

I imagine the use-case for building large scientific stacks on windows to be abithimal small :D

[adamjstewart]

You'd be surprised, conda is very popular on Windows.

[jonas-eschle]

Yes, conda hardly surprises me (I mean, the fact that many people use windows for coding surprised me, but let's take that fact as given), but I think because that's the only way to reasonable install packages for data analysis as an end-user, spack has AFAIU a very different target audience, i.e. HPC, built by source, and usually on servers rather than desktop (or to setup a VM, which hopefully Windows isn't used a lot). But I may be wrong, curious to see if there is an estimate on the spack usage on windows.
Sorry for the digress ;)