.. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Veit Schiele
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

Benefits of the build automation
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* Spack makes it easy for teams to share their code

  * Recipes for common libraries
  * reduce the effort for reproducible builds
  * making it easier to share builds.

* Patches allow bug fixes to be provided quickly

  * Application developers who use a library often do not have write access to
    their repositories.
  * Library developers may not be able to fix problems as quickly as desired.
  * With Spack, application developers can quickly make corrections and undo
    changes.

* Python allows rapid adoption by development teams.

  * Many application developers are already familiar with Python.
  * The ``yaml`` syntax of the specs are expressive.