Avoid depending on the order of the configured project in a unit test

[valeriupredoi]

Description

Order got mangled for some reason - you know why @bouweandela ?

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[bouweandela]

Based on which tests are failing here: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore?branch=main, it looks like something changed in a dependency. That test is a pain anyway, I've had to update it several times already. Maybe you could change it so it doesn't depend on the order of the projects and doesn't fail again when we add a another project?

[valeriupredoi]

Based on which tests are failing here: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore?branch=main, it looks like something changed in a dependency. That test is a pain anyway, I've had to update it several times already. Maybe you could change it so it doesn't depend on the order of the projects and doesn't fail again when we add a another project?

ah! Good call - I was suspecting it's a dependency, since we've not changed anything since yesterday 😁 Yes, let me have a closer look at it then

[valeriupredoi]

@bouweandela ut's blithering Dask!

  - dask         2026.3.0  pyhc364b38_0  conda-forge     Cached
  + dask         2026.1.2  pyhcf101f3_1  conda-forge     Cached
  - dask-core    2026.3.0  pyhc364b38_0  conda-forge     Cached
  + dask-core    2026.1.2  pyhcf101f3_0  conda-forge     Cached
  - distributed  2026.3.0  pyhc364b38_0  conda-forge     Cached
  + distributed  2026.1.2  pyhcf101f3_1  conda-forge     Cached

aghh!

[valeriupredoi]

OK @bouweandela the test is now dask-agnostic 🍺

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✅ Project coverage is 95.70%. Comparing base (69f2019) to head (ed0e567).
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[bouweandela]

Thanks V! Some suggestions to make this more future-proof

[bouweandela]

Thanks V!