Telcon: 2021 09 08

Weekly Spack meeting to be held on Wednesday September 8th 9am PST

(Pending SEP proposal from Chuck Atkins regarding last week's discussion on a standard for shared/static libs)
(TBC next week) Discussion: Packages which require multiple build systems: how to handle them?
- Discussions on this:
  - (Proposal based on using a new directive) https://github.com/spack/seps/blob/8dafadb4cae08275d168af964b3d168b4248977f/seps/sep-0002.md
  - (Notes on trying an approach based on a when class decorator) https://github.com/spack/seps/issues/4
- Two approaches were covered: Greg thought there were issues with both; we will cover that next week.
(Not covered this week) Discussion: Packages with multiple conflicting libraries - how to support them?
- For now, any such package installed by Spack advertises just one from the set (this ensures that everything is consistent where needed)
- https://github.com/spack/seps/pull/2
(Not covered this week) Discussion: long environment activations - are you having an issue with this?
- Some large envs might have this problem, e.g.: https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/25555

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