Firedrake container on ARM

[connorjward]

This adds some code from https://github.com/jorgensd/dolfinx-tutorial/blob/dokken/ngs/docker/Dockerfile#L19-L44 to build netgen from source since wheels are not available on ARM. I have checked on our mac runners and it at least runs.

I found that icepack would not build on ARM so I removed all the Firedrake apps from the ARM image. I don' t know if this a good idea or not.

[danshapero]

Were you able to see what was making icepack fail to build on ARM? If it's some dependency that I can make optional then I'm happy to do that.

[connorjward]

Were you able to see what was making icepack fail to build on ARM? If it's some dependency that I can make optional then I'm happy to do that.

It is failing to install rasterio, gmsh and pyroltrilinos.

I want to discuss in the meeting today what the purpose of the 'full-fat' firedrake container is. Does icepack actually use it? Looking at your website it looks as though you point people to firedrake-vanilla. I worry about committing to supporting the installation of lots of downstream packages when I don't know if anyone that actually uses the container for them.

[danshapero]

The install docs on the icepack website are way out of date now. But I think you're right on both counts. I don't know of any icepack users who work off of the full-fat docker image. It's also an annoying maintenance burden for you all to have to support lots of downstream packages. For example, icepack really depends on rasterio but as per this issue they don't have ARM wheels.

[connorjward]

The install docs on the icepack website are way out of date now. But I think you're right on both counts. I don't know of any icepack users who work off of the full-fat docker image. It's also an annoying maintenance burden for you all to have to support lots of downstream packages. For example, icepack really depends on rasterio but as per this issue they don't have ARM wheels.

From the meeting yesterday we concluded that we should drop all downstream packages from the container. Instead the container will just contain things like jax, pytorch and ngspetsc.

Thanks for the feedback!