Feature/imas data dictionaries

[maarten-ic]

Remove logic for building the Data Dictionary.

The Data Dictionary definitions are now provided by the imas-data-dictionaries package.

[SimonPinches]

So what happens when there's a new release of the DD? Is IMAS-Python no longer capable of dynamically updating itself or was this never possible and the only way is to make a new installation of IMAS-Python?
(I'm thinking about the versions of IMAS-Python centrally installed as environment modules and which are typically never updated once they go into production).

[olivhoenen]

So what happens when there's a new release of the DD? Is IMAS-Python no longer capable of dynamically updating itself or was this never possible and the only way is to make a new installation of IMAS-Python? (I'm thinking about the versions of IMAS-Python centrally installed as environment modules and which are typically never updated once they go into production).

https://github.com/iterorganization/IMAS-Python/blob/319a2f698c8c905530274e238ba46a37f6c4e261/docs/source/multi-dd.rst#data-dictionary-definitions
--> we will need to check if that can take precedence over a centrally installed / pointed by PYTHONPATH package...

[maarten-ic]

Is IMAS-Python no longer capable of dynamically updating itself

It never was, you always had to reinstall IMAS-Python to get updated DD definitions. When DD 4.1 will be released, the current IMAS-Python modules will also not contain these updated definitions (unless you rebuild the module).

The main goal of the IMAS-Data-Dictionaries was to make it possible to update the DD definitions independent of the IMAS-Python package version.

I'm thinking about the versions of IMAS-Python centrally installed as environment modules and which are typically never updated once they go into production

Shouldn't IMAS-Data-Dictionaries be a separate env module which can be updated independently of IMAS-Python?
When a new release of the DD and accompanying IMAS-Data-Dictionaries is made, users can load the newer module and keep the same IMAS-Python module?

[SimonPinches]

Shouldn't IMAS-Data-Dictionaries be a separate env module which can be updated independently of IMAS-Python?
When a new release of the DD and accompanying IMAS-Data-Dictionaries is made, users can load the newer module and keep the same IMAS-Python module?

We were thinking of packaging IMAS-Data-Dictionaries as part of IMAS-Python but having a separate module (in addition) may allow a route to updating the DD versions available at run time. To be tested...

[olivhoenen]

LGTM!
Let's try that way first, looks neat with pypi install, then we can figure out a way which works for us with EB.