Uberenv Software Release Notes

Notes describing significant changes in each Uberenv release are documented in this file.

The format of this file is based on Keep a Changelog.

The Uberenv project release numbers follow Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Adds --skip-setup option, which skips installing and setting up Spack and installs only (using pre-setup Spack). Useful for air-gapped builds.
Allow --package_final_phase command to be used for install build option, which controls after which phase Spack should stop.
Allow projects to force specifying --prefix on command line via new project option: force_commandline_prefix. This is useful when the default uberenv_libs can not exist inside of your project's source repository.
Adds support for Windows builds using Vcpkg.
Adds the --triplet command line argument for setting the Vcpkg build configuration.
Adds the --vcpkg-ports-path command line argument for setting the path to the vcpkg ports directory.
Adds support for the spack --reuse option for more relaxed tpl/dependency matching.
Adds support for --upstream with --setup-only.
Allow to prevent Uberenv from installing clingo setting spack_setup_clingo to no in .uberenv_config.json.
Adds the --spack-debug option to run spack spec/install commands in debug mode.
Adds the --spack-allow-deprecated option, to allow spack to build packages marked deprecated.

All spack specs are now expressed inside single quotes to protect the parsing of complex flags.
Added ability to have multiple packages directories that will get copied into spack on top of each other via project configuration option: spack_packages_path
Pretty print various options to screen for readability
Allow .uberenv_config.json to live at the same level as uberenv.py
No longer removes symlinks when using the directory of uberenv.py
Reduce Spack's git history to a bare minimum
Better error message for out-of-date pip, better documentation for spack_concretizer setting
Uberenv now requires python version 3.3 or above.