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Scripting: add custom spack extensions

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the Scripting tutorial and compare it with the examples in the linked Spack extensions documentation. Add the relevant examples to the tutorial, then verify that the new material is accurate, complete, and consistent with the existing tutorial.

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Description

enhancement

We should add examples from https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/extensions.html to our Scripting tutorial.

Dominant language
Python
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52
Forks
38
Avg merge
9d 17h
Merged PRs (30d)
8

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