Telcon: 2024 04 10

Wednesday April 10th, 9am PT (UTC -7:00)

Attendees

• Peter Scheibel (host)
• Jakov Petrina
• Mark Krentel
• Massimiliano Culpo
• Dom Heinzeller
• Abhiram
• Tammy Dahlgren

Agenda

(This week the meeting is for Q&A, there are no pre-planned topics)

• Dom: https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/43569
  • CMake 3.27 looks for lower+upper case PACKAGE_ROOT variables
  • But prints warnings for PACKAGE vs. package
  • Right now if you have a env var substitution: '{name}_ROOT': '{prefix}' you will get PACKAGE_ROOT
  • Max: Jinja template substitution may allow for template functions '{name | lowercase}_ROOT'
  • See: https://github.com/JCSDA/spack/pull/421
• Abhiram
  • Have a spack instance for a small number of users
  • How do we maintain a backup
  • Peter: recommend environment
    • Keep an old env
    • When you want to change things, create a new env
    • You can test installing things w/ the new env (it doesn't modify the old env or what's installed)