refactor[cartesian]: Enable MaskInlining in gt4yp - DaCe bridge

[romanc]

Description

MaskInlining will be a key feature of the improved gt4py / DaCe bridge as envisioned in GEOS-ESM/NDSL#53, which will propagate more control flow elements from gt4py to DaCe. We thus want to make sure if MaskInlining itself is posing any problems. We tracked the git history of this explicit exclude back to PR #300, which not only added the npir backend, but also refactored how pipeline stages are defined. Previous to this PR optimization passes to be specified explicitly and the PR changed this to an exclude list. It looks like the MaskInlining pass was added after the list of optimization passes was formed and thus excluded (to keep the list constant). From this history we thus don't expect MaskInlining to break anything.

Requirements

• All fixes and/or new features come with corresponding tests.
• Important design decisions have been documented in the approriate ADR inside the docs/development/ADRs/ folder.

If this PR contains code authored by new contributors please make sure:

• The PR contains an updated version of the AUTHORS.md file adding the names of all the new contributors.

[romanc]

@havogt I have a question about linting in gt4py. I ran pre-commit as suggested in the contribution guidelines. This ran fine. After that I was running tox (again as suggested) and this failed with flake8 in the linting stage in files that I didn't touch

Is that expected behavior?

[havogt]

We should not be using flake8 anymore. @egparedes there seem to be a few leftovers.

[romanc]

We should not be using flake8 anymore. @egparedes there seem to be a few leftovers.

I see, I can make a second PR to remove flake8 (in favor of ruff): see #1625.

[romanc]

With #1625 merged this PR rebased to main, we should be good for review now. Note that the AUTHORS.md file was changed in PR #1625 so nothing to do anymore in this PR regarding attribution.

/cc @FlorianDeconinck adding MaskInlining (to avoid confusion as to why the pass was skipped) as discucssed.

[FlorianDeconinck]

LGTM!

Yay for clean up \o/

[romanc]

cscs-ci run default

[romanc]

cscs-ci run default

Looks like I don't have permission to kick off the cscs/default CI. Can someone with proper rights do this for me? Thanks!

[egparedes]

cscs-ci run default

[romanc]

@egparedes thanks for running cscs tests. Please go ahead and merge (as I don't have write access to this repository).