* Transferred pending changes from efischer/develop
* 1. Rewrite of "Getting Started": everything you need to set up Spack, even on old/ornery systems. This is not a reference manual section; items covered here are covered more systematically elsewhere in the manual. Some sections were moved here from elsewhere.
2. Beginning to write three methods of application developer support. Two methods were moved from elsewhere.
* Edits...
* Moved sections in preparation for additional text to be added from old efischer/docs branch.
* Moved 2 more sections.
* Avoid accid
* Applied proofreading edits from @adamjstewart
* Fixed non-standard section characters.
* Moved section on profiling to the developer's guide.
* Still working on Spack workflows...
* Finished draft of packaging_guide.rst
* Renamed sample projects.
* Updates to docstrings
* Added documentation to resolve#638 (content taken from #846)
* Added section on resolving inconsistent run dependencies. Addresses #645
* Showed how to build Python extensions only compatible with certain versions of Python.
* Added examples of getting the right behavior from depends_on(). See #1035
* Added section on Intel compilers and their GCC masquerading feature. Addresses #638, #1687.
* Fixed formatting
* Added fixes to filesystem views. Added a caveats section to ``spack setup``.
* Updated section on Intel compiler configuration because compiler flags currently do not work (see #1687)
* Defined trusted downloads, and updated text based on them. (See #1696)
* Added workflow to deal with buggy upstream software. See #1683
* Added proper separation between Spack Docs vs. Reference Manual
* Renamed spack_workflows to workflows. Resolves a conflict with the .gitignore file.
* Removed repeated section.
* Created new "Vendor Specific Compiler Configuration" section and organized existing Intel section into it. Added new PGI and NAG sections; but they need to be expanded / rewritten based on the existing text plus research through Spack issues on GitHub.
* Fixed text on `spack load --dependencies` to conform to reality. See #1662
* Added patching as option for upstream bugfixes.
* Added section on using licensed compilers.
* Added section on non-downloadable tarballs.
* Wrote sections on NAG and PGI. Arranged compilers in alphabetical order.
* Fix indent.
* Fixed typos.
* Clarified dependency types.
* Applied edits from Adam J. Stewart. Spellchecked workflows and getting_started.
* Removed spurious header
* Fixed Sphinx errors
* Fixed erroneous symbol in docstring.
* Fix many typos and formatting problems.
* Spacing changes
* Added section on fixing Git problems. See #1779
* Fixed signature of install() method.
* Addressed system packages in greater detail. See #1794#1795
* Fixed typos
* Fixed quotes
* Duplicate section on Spack profiling removed from configuration.rst. It had earlier been moved to developer_guide.rst, where it fits better.
* Minor edits
- Tweak supported platform language.
- Various small changes to the new getting started guide.
* Fixed bug with quotes.
Includes :
- treatment of a generic hierarchy (i.e. lapack + mpi + compiler)
- possibility to specify which compilers are to be considered Core
- correct treatment of the 'family' directive
- unit tests for most new features
- Spack will check if the index needs updating, and will only parse
all package files if it does.
- Spack tries to parse as few package files as necessary.
- Default scope is versioned with spack and can be overridden by site
or user config.
- Default scope provides sensible default concretization preferences
for all of Spack.
- per-platform concretization scope can be added later (to force a
particular MPI on, e.g., Cray systems)
- User and site config are now kept separately in memory.
- Merging is done on demand when client code requests the configuration.
- Allows user/site config to be updated independently of each other by commands.
- simplifies config logic (no more tracking merged files)
- New spack.hooks package
- contains modules with pre and post install hooks
- New dotkit hook module
- generates/removes dotkits on install/uninstall
- New spack use, spack unuse commands
- use same syntax as install/uninstall
- New setup-env.bash script
- Sets up path, dotkit support
- new spack dotkit command
- used by script to parse specs, generate
specs of installed pckages for dotkit file names
- Allow version wildcards to match [_-.] instead of the exact separators
the version was constructed with.
- Handles the fact that boost versions are written both 1.55.0 and 1_55_0.
- Update spidering to handle parse errors and warn that Python < 2.7.3 has
less robust HTML parsing abilities.
