Next Fab Release

[hiker]

Here the list of issues to be fixed/PRs to be merged for the next release (and reason why I added them):

• Cannot grab a single file #588/Single file Rsync #592
  Required for MONC, and ideally allows us to update all build scripts to replace the deprecated grab_folder with grab_files.
• Add PSyclone Transmute Step #567/567 psyclone transmute #584
  Adds transmute support for LFRic_atm
• Allow overwriting location of site_specific directory #590/590 apps specific #591
  Adds support for application-specific flags (which can add/overwrite site-specific flags). Required for lfric_atm (to e.g. add UM-specific flags)
• Allow fab scripts to only do checkout or skip checkout #594
  This adds the capability to Fab script to do checkout only, or build only (from a single script). This is a requirement for platforms where e.g. the compute nodes do not have internet access (so the checkouts run on a small set of nodes with internet connection, but the build then on a larger compute node to allow parallel builds). #594 Added command line options to skip checkouts or stop after checkout #595
• Preprocessor does not use flags defined in the tool #596/Preprocessors do not use flags defined in the tool. #597
  Being able to properly define preprocessing flags in the preprocessor makes compiler-specific options cleaner to handle (used in Jules, which adds its own compiler defined, e.g. GNU_FORTRAN, INTEL_FORTRAN etc)
• NfConfig #589
  While not urgent, fixing the documentation would be good so we don't document a feature that does not exist. Plus if we should decide to add nf_config to Fab, it can be removed from MONC.
• Avoid running PSyclone as a subprocess #582
  UKMO to decide if this is important and provide a PR.
• Add support for mpifort #566
  UKMO to decide if this is needed.

Update this ticket as more issues are identified. I also can't seem to add a milestone we could use to tag tickets/PRs.