Spack: a Truly Useful Package Manager

So you are developing software, and you need the software to build for multiple difference machines, with different version of a library, or with just different compile time options. You can probably manage this by hand, but it very quickly gets out of hand. Spack is a package manager designed for high performance computing, but I would argue is more broadly useful for five reasons: It is explicitly designed to run as an unprivileged user....

August 27, 2020 · 5 min · 856 words · Robert Underwood