Telcon: 2018 10 18

To be held at 1pm PST

UPDATE (10/18): meeting was cancelled on account of no attendees - but there's lots of new stuff below! most important is the note about Spack being relicensed

Discussion

• Recently-merged PRs of interest
  • Spack has been relicensed. See: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9450#issue-221027331
    • All not-yet-merged Spack package PRs must update the license (available in the linked PR comment and below); this is now enforced by flake
  • You can configure file permissions on a per-package basis: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/8773
    • Documentation is at https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build_settings.html#package-permissions
  • Packages installed with the spack buildcache command now include Spack-generated modules: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9509
  • It is now easier to use built-in flag handlers for Spack packages: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/8668
    • The documentation is updated: https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/packaging_guide.html#compiler-flags
  • Spack now sets LC_ALL so that compiler messages are generated in English, see: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9486
    • You can undo this by setting the build_language config.yaml option (choosing '' or null will use the default environment language)
    • This was done to help Spack log parsing find error messages
• (TBD - solicited)

The new license header (flake checks will enforce this):

# Copyright 2013-2018 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
# 
# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)