CI: Add build and smoke test for targets

Note: Current way of smoke testing does not include doc,
tests, dotnet, ... targets which can lead to wrong dependencies
settings. This should solve the problem

Author: SMoraisAnsys

.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml

@@ -55,6 +55,71 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python -c "import pyaedt; from pyaedt import __version__"
 
+  smoke-tests-with-install-target:
+    name: Build and perform smoke tests with install target ${{ matrix.target }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
+        python-version: ['3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        install_target: ['tests', 'dotnet', 'doc', 'doc-noexamples', 'full']
+    steps:
+      - name: "Install Git and clone project"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: "Update pip and install the build and wheel libraries"
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip build wheel
+
+      - name: "Install the library"
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install ${{ matrix.install_target }}
+
+      - name: "Verify if importlib-metadata needs to be installed"
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          python_version="${{ matrix.python-version }}"
+          minor_python_version=$(echo "$python_version" | awk -F "." '{print $2}')
+          major_python_version=$(echo "$python_version" | awk -F "." '{print $1}')
+          if (( $(( $major_python_version == 3 )) )) && (( $(( $minor_python_version < 8 )) )); then
+            echo "needs_importlib_metadata=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          elif (( $(( $major_python_version < 3 )) )); then
+            echo "needs_importlib_metadata=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          else
+            echo "needs_importlib_metadata=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          fi
+
+      - name: "Install importlib-metadata (only for Python <= 3.7)"
+        if: env.needs_importlib_metadata == 'true'
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install importlib-metadata
+
+      - name: "Verify pyaedt is properly installed and get its version number"
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          if [ ${{ env.needs_importlib_metadata }} == 'true' ]; then
+            version=$(python -c "import importlib_metadata; print(importlib_metadata.version('pyaedt'))")
+          else
+            version=$(python -c "import importlib.metadata as importlib_metadata; print(importlib_metadata.version('pyaedt'))")
+          fi
+
+          if [ -z "$version" ]; then
+              echo "Problem getting the library version"
+              exit 1;
+          else
+              echo "The library version is: $version";
+          fi;
+          echo "library_version=$version" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
   doc-build:
     name: Documentation build without examples
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest