Simplify the detection protocol for packages

Packages can implement “detect_version” to support detection
of external instances of a package. This is generally easier
than implementing “determine_spec_details”. The API for
determine_version is similar: for example you can return
“None” to indicate that an executable is not an instance
of a package.

Users may implement a “determine_variants” method for a package.
When doing external detection, executables are grouped by version
and each group results in a single invocation of “determine_variants”
for the associated spec. The method returns a string specifying
the variants for the package. The method may additionally return
a dictionary representing extra attributes for the package.

These will be stored in the spec yaml and can be retrieved
from self.spec.extra_attributes

The Spack GCC package has been updated with an implementation
of “determine_variants” which adds the following extra
attributes to the package: c, cxx, fortran

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/share/spack/spack-completion.bash b/share/spack/spack-completion.bash
index 329b9f28ff..876ed0c647 100755
--- a/share/spack/spack-completion.bash
+++ b/share/spack/spack-completion.bash
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ _spack_external() {
     then
         SPACK_COMPREPLY="-h --help"
     else
-        SPACK_COMPREPLY="find"
+        SPACK_COMPREPLY="find list"
     fi
 }
 
@@ -866,6 +866,10 @@ _spack_external_find() {
     fi
 }
 
+_spack_external_list() {
+    SPACK_COMPREPLY="-h --help"
+}
+
 _spack_fetch() {
     if $list_options
     then