yaml problems

[ngraymon]

Trying to make gitlab-ci.yaml work on windows and/or inside unix
looked at the following links:

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3466166/how-to-check-if-running-in-cygwin-mac-or-linux
2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54761464/how-to-use-if-else-condition-on-gitlabci
3. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#variables
4. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/variables/index.html#custom-cicd-variables

eventually we gave up on trying to use all the solutions and just had lucas install WSL2 and run the gitlab runner inside docker on wsl2

[ngraymon]

Also remember to check validity of yaml file with
https://git.uwaterloo.ca/ngraymon/exploratory-project/-/ci/lint