Make GAAS work

[bena-nasa]

So, this is the PR to get GAAS working after it was changed to use ExtData which was apparently never tested and relied on a non-existent feature. I have finally implemented this feature that is addressed in this companion PR in MAPL:
GEOS-ESM/MAPL#1797
In the PR here in chemistry I have updated GAAS as well as the OPS version of the ExtData2G yaml file for GAAS

[mathomp4]

I'm going to block this with a label for now until we can get MAPL 2.32 with @bena-nasa's PR in.

[mathomp4]

MAPL 2.33 is now in a PR in GEOSgcm: GEOS-ESM/GEOSgcm#497

When @sdrabenh pulls that into GEOSgcm main, then this PR should be able to pass CI (once CI is rerun)

[github-actions]

Label error. Requires exactly 0 of: Contingent - DNA, Needs Lead Approval, Contingent -- Do Not Approve. Found: Contingent - DNA, 0 diff, bugfix

[mmanyin]

@mathomp4 OK if we remove the DNA label?

[mathomp4]

@mathomp4 OK if we remove the DNA label?

I think so. But do you mind if I make an update to the changelog to note "Now requires MAPL 2.32 or higher"? → I updated the changelog.

[mathomp4]

Actually, I think this is a good reason to make this a full on minor release (1.11.0) because it requires MAPL 2.32 to BUILD as @bena-nasa had to make a new procedure in MAPL.

@tclune would a minor release cover this? I don't think a major is needed since it's not like chemistry itself changed, but rather it's just a build issue in a library.

[github-actions]

Label error. Requires exactly 0 of: Contingent - DNA, Needs Lead Approval, Contingent -- Do Not Approve. Found: Contingent - DNA, 0 diff, bugfix

[mmanyin]

@mathomp4 I'm fine with a minor release.

[tclune]

@tclune would a minor release cover this? I don't think a major is needed since it's not like chemistry itself changed, but rather it's just a build issue in a library.

Yes. Packages that use GAAS do not need to change. So it is a minor release for GAAS. And just to be pedantic ... GAAS did not change because MAPL changed. Rather the desired change exploited a new feature from MAPL.
L. So no backward compatibility is violated.

[github-actions]

Label error. Requires exactly 0 of: Contingent - DNA, Needs Lead Approval, Contingent -- Do Not Approve. Found: Contingent - DNA, 0 diff, bugfix

[mathomp4]

I think this is good then! And I see @mmanyin removed the label

[mmanyin]

The PR is zero-diff for standard runs. Trust in Ben that GAAS now operates properly.