Telcon: 2018 09 06

Attendees

Recently-merged PRs of general interest
- Spack environment updates take precedence over external/compiler modules: https://github.com/spack/spack/commit/f6fff8f3431144b4cccf8ab644cac711d9840650
- Support additional environment customization for compilers (in compilers.yaml): https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/8996
- Improved support for installation of Intel packages: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/7469
  - ? What about case where you build Intel Parallel Studio with Gcc, then try to use that Intel Parallel Studio to build something (and it tries to build Intel Parallel Studio with Intel Parallel Studio)
Avoiding package reuse:
- Add packages as externals
- Specify dependencies as hashes
- Environments could be updated with that as a follow up to https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/8231
Status of Spack Environments Merge???
Dan: Cray usage of Spack: Cray is working on making Cray compilers recognizable to Spack
spack config get packages will validate the packages.yaml