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Spack
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Spack is a package management tool designed to support multiple
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versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of platforms
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and environments. It was designed for large supercomputing centers,
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where many users and application teams share common installations of
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software on clusters with exotic architectures, using libraries that
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do not have a standard ABI. Spack is non-destructive: installing a new
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version does not break existing installations, so many configurations
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can coexist on the same system.
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Most importantly, Spack is simple. It offers a simple spec syntax so
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that users can specify versions and configuration options
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concisely. Spack is also simple for package authors: package files are
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writtin in pure Python, and specs allow package authors to write a
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single build script for many different builds of the same package.
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See the
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[Feature Overview](http://scalability-llnl.github.io/spack/features.html)
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for examples and highlights.
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To install spack and install your first package:
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2014-09-19 16:54:39 +00:00
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$ git clone https://github.com/scalability-llnl/spack.git
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$ cd spack/bin
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$ ./spack install libelf
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Documentation
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[Full documentation](http://scalability-llnl.github.io/spack)
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for Spack is also available.
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2015-03-24 16:28:47 +00:00
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Contributing to Spack
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------------------------
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Spack is an open source project, and we welcome contributions in the
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form of new packages, bugfixes, or even core development. If you are
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interested in contributing to spack, the first step is to join the
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mailing list. Click the link below and send the resulting email to
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subscribe:
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* **[Subscribe](mailto:majordomo@lists.llnl.gov?subject=subscribe&body=subscribe%20spack)**
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* **[Unsubscribe](mailto:majordomo@lists.llnl.gov?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe%20spack)**
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2014-01-13 04:10:08 +00:00
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Authors
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----------------
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Spack was written by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov.
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2014-08-01 15:33:00 +00:00
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2015-02-19 04:51:50 +00:00
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Significant contributions were also made by:
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* David Beckingsale
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* David Boehme
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2015-02-09 09:13:56 +00:00
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* Alfredo Gimenez
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2014-08-01 15:33:00 +00:00
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* Luc Jaulmes
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* Matt Legendre
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* Greg Lee
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* Adam Moody
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2015-02-19 04:51:50 +00:00
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* Saravan Pantham
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* Joachim Protze
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2014-10-28 04:33:51 +00:00
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* Bob Robey
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2015-02-19 04:51:50 +00:00
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* Justin Too
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2014-08-01 15:33:00 +00:00
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Release
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Spack is released under an LGPL license. For more details see the
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LICENSE file.
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``LLNL-CODE-647188``
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