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v0.8.15

v0.8.15 Release Notes
@tgamblin tgamblin tagged this 24 Feb 18:43 
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100 new packages since 0.8.11:
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Mitos       gtkplus        mpfr          py-matplotlib        py-shiboken
R           harfbuzz       mpibash       py-mpi4py            py-sip
atk         icu            muster        py-mx                py-six
bison       icu4c          nasm          py-nose              py-sympy
bzip2       isl            netcdf        py-numpy             py-virtualenv
cairo       jdk            nettle        py-pexpect           python
cloog       lcms           pango         py-pil               qhull
dbus        libdrm         pcre          py-pmw               qt
dri2proto   libffi         pixman        py-pychecker         qthreads
flex        libgcrypt      ppl           py-pygments          readline
gasnet      libgpg-error   py-basemap    py-pylint            rose
gcc         libjpeg-turbo  py-biopython  py-pyparsing         ruby
gdk-pixbuf  libmng         py-cython     py-pyqt              tcl
geos        libxcb         py-dateutil   py-pyside            tk
git         libxml2        py-epydoc     py-pytz              util-linux
glib        libxshmfence   py-gnuplot    py-rpy2              vtk
gmp         libxslt        py-h5py       py-scientificpython  wget
gnutls      memaxes        py-ipython    py-scikit-learn      xcb-proto
gperf       mesa           py-libxml2    py-scipy             xz
gperftools  mpc            py-mako       py-setuptools        yasm

For users
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  - Support for Python and Python extensions.
  - Python extensions can be activated/deactivated in an installation.
  - Updated documentation
  - Clearer 'spack find' output
  - Bugfixes for mirroring
  - Graphing dependencies with spack graph
  - ROSE Compiler (http://rosecompiler.org)
  - New commands:
      - spack extensions
      - spack activate
      - spack deactivate
      - spack clean (behaves like old clean -d)
      - spack restage (behaves like old clean -w)

For packagers
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  - Package extensions, e.g.: extends('python')
  - Extensible activation/deactivation of extensions
  - Dependencies can set variables/build options for dependents
      - setup_dependent_environment()
  - Support fetch URLs with query strings.
  - New commands:
      - spack env
      - spack graph
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