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The "makeincludes" program used to parse src/xbeachlibrary/params.F90 and src/xbeachlibrary/spaceparams.tmpl to find all input parameters and output variables respectively. The new templating system uses a Python script located in scripts/generate.py to parse the Fortran code. Also, the spaceparams.tmpl file is replaced by the src/xbeachlibrary/variables.F90 file. The main reason is that the Python script then only needs to parse Fortran code and not also a custom template format as used in the original spaceparams.tmpl file.
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