Benefits of the build automation

• 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.