Telcon: 2016 01 21

Participants

1. Todd Gamblin
2. Mike Collette
3. Jim Galarowicz
4. Peter Scheibel
5. Ben Boeckel
6. Iain Morgan
7. Greg Becker
8. David Shrader
9. Greg Lee
10. Matt Legendre

News

• Spack has 300 301 packages! 🎉
• 20 24 PRs from 7 contributors merged this week.
• Build dependencies (Ben Boeckel)
• Debate over boost defaults (Peter, Todd, Erik, Nicolas, others)
• NAG Compiler Support (Adam Stewart)
• Style checking (Massimiliano Culpo) ...

Bugs

• John Westlund's OHPC issues still outstanding -- trying to get to these soon.
• Mirror issues - started after merge of spack repos. ...

Discussion

• Peter Scheibel working on generating TOSS3 RPM ecosystems with Spack
• RedHat says they've made a lot of progress on libabigail
  • Can use to check for ABI compatibility between versions of libraries
  • Many bugs squashed -- no more known bugs
  • consider using in Spack for safe upgrades.