[yt-dev] MAESTRO frontend

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Chris,

Glad to hear from you, even if it is to sign-off-for-a-bit.  :)
Thanks for checking in, and I'll go ahead and disable it from "load"
for now, with the hopes that someday it'll come back and we can find
another distinguishing factor.

Best,

Matt

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Chris Malone <chris.m.malone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi dev-team,
>
> I was just chatting with Nathan about the MAESTRO frontend in yt, and it
> appears it is causing some confusion with other BoxLib-based data formats
> during loading.  In particular, the MAESTRO frontend looks for a "job_info"
> file to identify itself as a MAESTRO data set.  However, the CASTRO code
> (which should be released soon…) --- and hence Nyx --- have since been
> updated to also dump job_info files into their data sets, thus causing the
> confusion.
>
> For the time being, I would recommend turning off the MAESTRO frontend in
> yt.  I think I was the only one to have ever used it --- MAESTRO isn't
> currently publicly available.  I have been wanting to put in more work with
> the yt project, and have had fixing/cleaning up the MAESTRO frontend on my
> TODO list for quite some time, but it is my someday/maybe pile.  Hopefully
> I'll have some time soon to make this more of a priority!
>
> Chris
>
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