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Migrate the installer to python

Currently the spack_setup.sh builds the toolchains, if we migrate this to a python script, we will have the following benefits:

  • we might be able to run the installer in macsos
  • better control over which modules are created and in which order
  • install custom variants for, e.g. of openmpi for non-HPC machines
  • detect the system compiler used, and modify the spack overlays accordingly