DOC: Add clarification that this only runs on non-M1 mac machines

xCDAT / xcdat-validation

The xCDAT validation repository for exploring, prototyping, and testing feature ideas.

https://xcdat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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DOC: Add clarification that this only runs on non-M1 mac machines #51

Closed mgrover1 closed 7 months ago

mgrover1 commented 7 months ago

Validation is not currently possible on recent MacOS machines, that utilize the arm-based chips (ex. M1). This should be clarified within the README/documentation.

This is preventing some steps related to the JOSS review for xcdat.

brian-rose commented 5 months ago

I ran into the same issue -- cannot run the validation scripts on a Mac laptop (osx-arm64).

As far as I can tell, the reason is that cdms2 is unavailable for this platform, e.g. https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/cdms2

Although this issue was closed, I don't see the limitation documented anywhere. This has slowed down my JOSS review for xCDAT.

tomvothecoder commented 5 months ago

I ran into the same issue -- cannot run the validation scripts on a Mac laptop (osx-arm64).

As far as I can tell, the reason is that cdms2 is unavailable for this platform, e.g. anaconda.org/conda-forge/cdms2

Although this issue was closed, I don't see the limitation documented anywhere. This has slowed down my JOSS review for xCDAT.

Thanks for reporting out that the README.md doesn't include the supported OS architectures. I've updated the prereqs section to list which OS architectures are supported due to CDAT (linux64 and osx-64).