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To simplify building aqnwb for users we could explore Spack to build aqnwb and all dependencies together

A package.py for aqnwb would probably look something like this

from spack.package import *

class Aqnwb(CMakePackage):
    """Description of aqnwb project."""

    homepage = "https://neurodatawithoutborders.github.io/aqnwb/"
    url      = "https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/aqnwb/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.tar.gz"
    git      = "https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/aqnwb.git"

    version('1.0.0', sha256='your_project_tarball_sha256sum')
    version('develop', branch='main')

    # Specify minimum versions for dependencies
    depends_on('[email protected]:')
    depends_on('boost')

    # Define a variant for build type
    variant('build_type', default='Release', values=('Debug', 'Release',), description='CMake build type')

    def cmake_args(self):
        args = []

        hdf5_prefix = self.spec['hdf5'].prefix
        boost_prefix = self.spec['boost'].prefix

        args.append('-DHDF5_ROOT={0}'.format(hdf5_prefix))
        args.append('-DBOOST_ROOT={0}'.format(boost_prefix))

        # Add the build type to the CMake arguments
        build_type = self.spec.variants['build_type'].value
        args.append('-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE={0}'.format(build_type))

        return args