Are the 8.3.x releases supported?

[durack1]

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Issue

It seems the latest ESMF/ESMPy release is 8.3.1 (released 21 Sept 2022), but the latest version available on conda-forge is 8.2.0 (released 28 Oct 2021). Should we expect support for the more recent releases ASAP? Is something holding it up?

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[xylar]

No yet, we are working on that over at conda-forge/esmf-feedstock#78 and conda-forge/esmf-feedstock#79. There are missing dependencies including parallelio, which I have attempted to add here:
conda-forge/staged-recipes#20231. The review of that PR complained about static libraries being included in libnetcdf and netcdf-fortran. I am attempting to get libnetcdf fixed in conda-forge/libnetcdf-feedstock#140. However, that PR is full of patches and it seems like we might wait for a release of 4.9.1 in a week or 2.

After libnetcdf goes in, I will attempt to follow up on the netcdf-fortran side. Then, I will request a re-review of conda-forge/staged-recipes#20231. Once parallelio is available, I will attempt conda-forge/esmf-feedstock#79 (and maybe conda-forge/esmf-feedstock#78) again.

[durack1]

@xylar wow, ok you have this covered. I'll wait for the cogs to turn across the multiple repos and magic to land ~soon.

It appears that osx-arm64 support is still a while off for ESMPy anyway if esmf-org/esmf#60 is anything to go by, so aspirationally ESMF 8.4.0 might be a target for platform support

[xylar]

Yes, that was my impression, too.

[xylar]

Some headway has been made:

• We dropped static libraries in netcdf-fortran: Drop static libraries netcdf-fortran-feedstock#74
• We are about to do so in libnetcdf: V4.9.0 libnetcdf-feedstock#140

[billsacks]

It appears that osx-arm64 support is still a while off for ESMPy anyway if esmf-org/esmf#60 is anything to go by, so aspirationally ESMF 8.4.0 might be a target for platform support

With the changes in esmf-org/esmf#79 ESMF now builds and runs nearly all tests cleanly on osx-arm64 with gfortran + clang. We plan to merge this PR within the next few days and then get it into the upcoming ESMF 8.4.0 release.

[durack1]

@billsacks this is great news!! I'll watch for 8.4.0 to land

[xylar]

Addressed in #58