Telcon: 2019 01 10

Attendees

• Peter Scheibel (host)
• Patrick Gartung
• Todd Gamblin
• Brian Van Essen

Discussion items

• Recently-merged PRs of interest (there have been several significant updates since 12/13)
  • Allow creation of simplified directory layouts for installed packages: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9679
    • Builds on views, allows defining a specialized view
  • Bug fix for cached resources: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10152 and https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10285
  • Support for using Arm compiler: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9840
  • Enforce conventions for multi-valued variants where the empty set is allowed, add convenience functions for more-complex value selection in multi-valued variants: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9481
  • Improved validation of module files: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9878
  • Copyright updated to 2019 (FYI, for package PRs): https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10234
  • Addition of a patch cache, allow searching for patches by checksum: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10192
  • Address some unicode errors that come up for spack blame: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10186
• TBD: solicited