Installation suggestions

[Plavit]

Background

I was installing GridLAB-D in the past few days for a research project and it proved unnecessarily complex, I propose a few changes to Readme that will solve this issue.

Proposed solution

Three changes proposed to README.md for better clarity:

1. Remove the Contributions section, as https://source.gridlabd.us/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md does not exist.

2. Add the following to the Windows WSL section:
   GridLAB-D supports several WSL distributions, including the latest Ubuntu versions. See the setup folder for currently supported distributions.

3. Add the following to the Windows WSL section below the validation code ./build.sh --system --validate :
   The validation may take some time and it need not complete completely successfully for GridLAB-D to be used. The final report may look something like this:

Validation report:
747 models tested
1 unexpected errors
746 tests succeeded
>99% success rate
Total validation elapsed time: 281.9 seconds
See '/home/username/gridlabd/validate.txt' for details
ERROR [build.sh]: unable to verify install 

Alternatives

Feel free to amend my proposed wording

Additional context

Not needed

[dchassin]

@Plavit, have you considered using the pre-built images instead of building it yourself?

[Plavit]

I built it fine in the end, however it's possible that we might need to make some source tweaks in our research project so I needed to build from source along with my colleagues.

I am therefore humbly proposing minor edits in the readme that, in my opinion, would help others that will use the WSL approach in the future.

I do realise of course it is up to your consideration whether to include the suggestions, however I do believe that it would be a useful edit for those that will consider working with the tool. 🙏

[dchassin]

@Plavit, thanks for the suggestions.

[dchassin]

@Plavit, do you plan to submit your source code changes at some point? If so, please note that we had to rebuild the original arras-energy/gridlabd repo from scratch due to problems with old DCOs. The original repo is renamed gridlabd-old and the new one is now called gridlabd. Consequently, you may need to fork the new one to get updates and submit contributions.

[Plavit]

Okay, we'll look into it, thanks for highlighting!