Questions Jan 2022

Questions for Harmen Stoppels

A list of things to ask Harmen on his visit on 30 January 2022

1. Continuous Integration type workflow for providing updated versions of the stack

There is a suggestion for a periodic workflow at: Slack link

• What does Harmen think of it?

2. How to do Python and R bundles

• What options are there for creating Python and R bundles (of Pyhton or R packages, to accessed by the user as a single module command)?

• How does a user add packages to such a bundle?

3. Review of new packages made by UCL

• What does Harmen think of the packages in this repo at hpc-spack/repos/dev/packages?

?? ANY QUESTIONS ARISING FROM THESE???

• some of our own build scripts require the module gcc-libs/4.9.2. What is the equivalent, if any, in the spack framework?

• The generic package class has

    make("install") ```
are these just suggestions of things the packager might provide so can be deleted, or are in fact essential functions?