Use Cylc as a dependency in setup.py later?

[kinow]

Hi,

We are working to create Cylc's setup.py file, and later upload it to repositories such as PYPI and Anaconda (cylc/cylc-flow#2834 & cylc/cylc-flow#1337).

It looks like wrfpy only creates a Cylc suite with directories and files for running WRF, but maybe there is something else from Cylc that you could use?

e.g.:

• Validate the generated suite.rc - given we will be exporting our commands too, you should be able to do something like from cylc.commands import validate later (Move the logic from Cylc commands/scripts to the cylc package cylc/cylc-flow#2802)
• Generate or validate time points (isodatetime is already on PYPI https://pypi.org/project/isodatetime/)

Or if you have any other ideas about what you would like to use from Cylc :-)

Cheers
Bruno