Environment setup

[maritsandstad]

Is it an idea to have environment setup that can set up a local environment inside the repository which includes an installation of cmip7-cmor-tables. I generally prefer to keep the environment installation local to the repo as it lives somewhere I have a good overview of it. Also for other repos, I have had these type things in a Makefile so environment setups etc can be handled there. One can use pip (and install the cmip7-cmor-tables from github) for everything, or pixi or something else as one prefers. Happy to make a suggestion for a setup for that if you think that is interesting @jedwards4b

[jedwards4b]

Yes please do that, be aware that I am currently using a fork and branch of the origin repository:
https://github.com/CESM-Development/cmip7-cmor-tables
branch: cesm-dev

origin: https://github.com/WCRP-CMIP/cmip7-cmor-tables

[maritsandstad]

Yeah, I suspected as much... Are you planning to make PRs to the original one, btw? I thought that might be useful, but is probably slightly tangential. If we specify the setup we can have it clone the cmor-table from a the forked repo as well. I will need to add in some NorESM stuff also to the cmor-tables

[jedwards4b]

Please feel free to add noresm stuff to the branch. I have an open Issue
to update the CV with cesm3 information, but it has not been responded to at all and it was opened 2 weeks ago. So either I don't understand the process (entirely possible) or they are very slow to respond to requests.

[maritsandstad]

Also, do you want to have github actions for stuff like tests and formatting here @jedwards4b ?

[jedwards4b]

We already have: https://github.com/ESMCI/cmip7-prep/tree/main/.github/workflows