Chapel update for Arkouda

[bonachea]

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[bonachea]

I created this staging PR from @arezaii 's code in order to annotate with comments.

I've made a few suggestions for improvement that I'd like to see considered or addressed before this is proposed/merged upstream.

[arezaii]

I think I addressed all the comments. There might be one more change coming to patch the older versions of chapel due to chapel-lang/chapel#26261, but should just be a patch

[bonachea]

This looks much better (based on source inspection).

Thanks for the improvements!

[arezaii]

I'm curious about your thoughts w.r.t adding this to the upcoming 2.3 release PR vs. making it a separate PR vs. possibly combining it with the arkouda package PR. I think putting it in the 2.3 release PR is reasonable but is likely to delay the arkouda package PR approval since it depends on these changes. I don't think that putting changes to multiple packages in one PR is the spack recommendation, so I'm leaning towards making it a separate PR for expediency.

[bonachea]

I don't think that putting changes to multiple packages in one PR is the spack recommendation, so I'm leaning towards making it a separate PR for expediency.

I agree that keeping this separate from the PR adding Arkouda seems like a good idea, unless we're really in a hurry to get the Arkouda spackage merged (in which case a combined PR might be justified).

adding this to the upcoming 2.3 release PR vs. making it a separate PR vs. possibly combining it with the arkouda package PR. I think putting it in the 2.3 release PR is reasonable but is likely to delay the arkouda package PR approval since it depends on these changes.

I'd probably recommend creating a PR for these Chapel changes soon (as soon as you're confident they are final), and hopefully that gets approved quickly. If for some reason that drags on, you can always add the 2.2 release to the same PR when that becomes available.

[bonachea]

New changes look great on source inspection (I have not tested, but assume you have).
Thanks for the improvements!

I made one minor suggestion for improvement.

[bonachea]

Thanks for all the improvements!

[arezaii]

I went ahead and moved this branch to chapel-2.3 to make the release PR spack#48053