MAPL 2.24.0

[mathomp4]

This is a minor release of MAPL. All testing with GEOSgcm shows it to be zero-diff.

There are many changes and additions to this release having to do with History. The main change is the addition of a new flag in HISTORY.rc, Allow_Overwrite that when set to .true. will allow History to "overwrite" files as it runs. This is not the default behavior as in GEOS we usually clean out scratch directories when running the model. But other users of MAPL often "re-use" a run space and so overwriting the history output is convenient. There are also other bugfixes for history to prevent running with impossible chunking, warning about the use of CFIOasync, and checking for duplicate entries.

This release also contains some tutorials on how to use MAPL and more information can be found on the wiki:

https://github.com/GEOS-ESM/MAPL/wiki/Using-the-MAPL-tutorials

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From CHANGELOG.md

Fixed

• Fix error trapping in bundleio test

Added

• Add tutorials
• Check for duplicate entries in the History.rc file
• Check that a user-provided chunking in the History.rc is compatible with the output grid
• If a user requests CFIOasync in the History.rc, print warning and set to CFIO
• Added option allow writing to pre-existing files with History

Changed

• Replaced deprecated RC macro with _RC and remove unused code in ExtData2G
• Moved to checkout@v3 action due to git safe directory issue
• Added tutorials to CI

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What's Changed

• Fix GitHub Actions issue by @mathomp4 in Fix GitHub Actions issue #1593
• Tutorial Proposal by @bena-nasa in Tutorial Proposal #1586
• Add tutorials to MAPL CI by @mathomp4 in Add tutorials to MAPL CI #1599
• Hand merge main into develop 2022-Jul-15 by @mathomp4 in Hand merge main into develop 2022-Jul-15 #1604
• Fix multiple history issues by @bena-nasa in Fix multiple history issues #1608
• just some cleanup of ExtData2G by @bena-nasa in just some cleanup of ExtData2G #1610
• Fix error trapping in BundleIO test by @mathomp4 in Fix error trapping in BundleIO test #1615
• Fixes Make History check for file existence optional #1621 by @bena-nasa in Fixes #1621 #1622
• Update CHANGELOG and CMakeLists for 2.24.0 Release by @mathomp4 in Update CHANGELOG and CMakeLists for 2.24.0 Release #1624
• Merge Develop into Main for 2.24.0 Release by @mathomp4 in Merge Develop into Main for 2.24.0 Release #1626

Full Changelog: v2.23.1...v2.24.0

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This discussion was created from the release MAPL 2.24.0.