[Yt-dev] Enzo parameter file reading change

[Matthew Turk]

I pushed these changes this morning, along with changes to the domain
names in the files.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As discussed over on yt-users, people have requested that the
> parameter file reading be changed for Enzo, to scrape the entire
> parameter file.
>
> I've committed a change and pushed to *my* fork of yt on BitBucket.
> The change is shorter than this email.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt/changeset/e96282130e63
>
> Please pull this revision and see if it works for your parameter
> files.  It works for mine.  If it works globally, I will push to the
> main repo.  A test script is here:
> http://paste.enzotools.org/show/1751/ which will print out the
> conversion factors between the two.  There are other items to check as
> well.  This is potentially a HUGE change that might have errors, so I
> ask for your testing on it!  If I get several testings, I will push,
> otherwise I will back it out.
>
> There are three things I wanted to bring up:
>
> 1) Enzo 3.0 will feature a much better configuration system, making
> most of this irrelevant.
> 2) I would like to move away from using the CurrentTimeIdentifer as a
> unique ID to using MetaDataDatasetUUID as that identifier.  This will
> break existing pickles.  I think the natural time to do this is at
> yt-3.0.  [+-][01]?
> 3) With yt-3.0, I would like to remove the dict-like access to the
> parameter file we currently have, which currently queries *FOUR*
> dictionaries in order:
>
> units
> time_units
> parameters
> conversion_factors
>
> I'd like to split this into at least parameters and units.  [+-][01]?
>
> -Matt
>