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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Chapel(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """Chapel is a modern programming language that is parallel, productive,
+       portable, scalable and open-source."""
+
+    homepage = "https://chapel-lang.org/"
+    url      = "https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/releases/download/1.19.0/chapel-1.19.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.19.0', sha256='c2b68a20d87cc382c2f73dd1ecc6a4f42fb2f590b0b10fbc577382dd35c9e9bd')
+    version('1.18.0', sha256='68471e1f398b074edcc28cae0be26a481078adc3edea4df663f01c6bd3b6ae0d')