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Turn off cylc variant for ewok-env by default, but make sure we test building cylc regularly #1162

Closed climbfuji closed 2 months ago

climbfuji commented 3 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The cylc packages introduce a lot of Python dependencies that make concretization and building difficult and lengthy in the unified environment. Nobody so far is using the spack-stack cylc installation.

Describe the solution you'd like NRL has an interest in using cylc from spack-stack, but doesn't need the full unified environment. We want to make sure that we continue testing the build of the cylc packages, so maybe it's possible to add it to the neptune environment (as a variant or as default). Or found another way (a chained environment tested in CI?).

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climbfuji commented 2 months ago

PR https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/pull/1191 disables the cylc variant for ewok-env in the unified-dev and skylab-dev templates. That's step 1 - we now need a way to test building cylc regularly elsewhere.

BenjaminRuston commented 2 months ago

agree.. @fcvdb and I literally just started poking around with cylc today, to just help with other busy work tasks

hopefully can get some basic functional tests ready to help test the elsewhere cylc

climbfuji commented 2 months ago

Re-opening this since it was NOT resolved. Only the first part was done (turn off cylc variant by default). The second part (make sure we test elsewhere) is still missing.