Models API (demo)

[wpbonelli]

Demo programmatic access to example data/models via https://github.com/fatiando/pooch.

This could be convenient for

• https://github.com/modflowpy/flopy/issues/1872#issuecomment-1751327650
• https://github.com/MODFLOW-USGS/modflow6/issues/1348
• autotests in flopy, modflow6 and elsewhere

[wpbonelli]

A simple proof of concept is available here: https://github.com/wpbonelli/modflow-devtools/tree/models-api

If this seems worthwhile, flopy may be a better place for it because the API

• could return MFSimulation or model directly
• could construct models lazily from Python/flopy on first call then cache input files, as an alternative to downloading them from GitHub