Reconcile cory's and main offshore-dev

[cfrontin]

This is really just bringing in develop

[jaredthomas68]

Looks fine to me

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR merges the latest changes from the main develop branch into offshore-dev, bringing test updates, dependency bumps, and core refactors into sync.

• Realign and streamline unit and system tests to match updated utility and BOS APIs
• Refactor BOS cost components to integrate SpacingApproximations and centralize latent variable setup
• Update dependencies, CI workflows, and example scripts to reflect new APIs and version constraints

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 20 out of 28 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
test/unit/utils/test_utils.py	Removed unused imports and left placeholder test class
test/unit/utils/test_matematics.py	Adjusted JAX imports for grad and test_util
test/unit/ard/cost/test_wisdem_wrap.py	Swapped LandBOSSE for LandBOSSEArdComp in unit tests
test/system/ard/offshore/test_mooring_packing.py	Added full system test for mooring packing
test/system/ard/geometry/test_constraints.py	Introduced boundary constraint system tests
test/system/ard/cost/test_spacing_approximations_connections.py	Updated import path for spacing approximation group
pyproject.toml	Restricted Python and dependency version ranges
examples/onshore/optimization_demo.py	Updated BOS import and turbine spec path
examples/offshore/optimization_demo.py	Replaced hardcoded if True with optimize flag
examples/offshore-fixed/optimization_demo.py	Corrected Orbit import to ORBIT
ard/utils/test_utils.py	Renamed validator parameter and added traceback for failures
ard/layout/sunflower.py	Documented spacing_target input and switched to FD partials
ard/layout/gridfarm.py	Switched complex-step to finite-difference for partials
ard/glue/prototype.py	Replaced LandBOSSE with LandBOSSEArdComp in the glue layer
ard/cost/wisdem_wrap.py	Major refactor: introduced SpacingApproximations and helper API
ard/cost/approximate_turbine_spacing.py	Removed duplicate BOS group, left only SpacingApproximations
README.md	Relaxed WISDEM install command
.github/workflows/python-tests-unit.yml	Restricted Python versions and removed dev-install step
.github/workflows/python-tests-system.yml	Restricted Python versions and removed dev-install step
.coveragerc	Updated omitted paths for coverage

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (3)

.github/workflows/python-tests-unit.yml:33

• Removing the pip install .[dev] step means dev dependencies (like pytest) may not be installed, causing the CI tests to fail. Re-add the dev install or explicitly install required test dependencies.

        pip install .[dev]

.github/workflows/python-tests-system.yml:34

• The removal of the dev dependencies installation step will likely break system tests due to missing test frameworks. Please restore or explicitly install the test requirements.

        pip install .[dev]

test/unit/utils/test_utils.py:1

• [nitpick] This test file no longer contains any actual test methods after trimming imports; consider adding tests for pyrite_validator to maintain coverage for utility functions.

class TestUtils:

[Copilot]

This checks for core_name in promotion_map but should be verifying membership in variable_map before calling prob.set_val to avoid unintended lookups.

Suggested change

	if core_name in promotion_map:
	if core_name in variable_map:

[Copilot]

[nitpick] Using print for warnings may go unnoticed; consider using Python’s logging module or OpenMDAO’s reporting to surface missing inputs more robustly.

Suggested change

	print(
	logging.warning(