cmake, Python packaging, and spack with separate build responsibilities
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The responsibilities of our build systems have historically been mangled, with a pseudo-Python-install carried out by CMake as the most problematic and brittle aspect. This PR will fix that as follows:
pipas a pypkg build frontend.skbuildas a build backend that runs the CMake build without the trailing pip build.spackwill configure a CMake build without pip, followed by a pip build without CMakeThis allows us to move away effortlessly from Python, or add new interpreters/bindings without our build tools becoming hypercomplex