[Yt-dev] proposal: turning off parameter file storage by default

[Matthew Turk]

Good point, Cameron.  I created an issue for this and tagged it with 2.3.

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issue/322/update-docs-to-reflect-that-parameter-file

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Cameron Hummels
<chummels at astro.columbia.edu> wrote:
> +1 but I think when you make this change, the docs on the website should be
> changed to reflect it, so that people don't get stuck with old functionality
> getting broken.
>
> Cameron
>
>
> On 11/9/11 3:13 PM, Sam Skillman wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There have been some recent issues that have popped up when parameter file
>> storage is used when accessing different parameter files at the same time in
>> a parallel job.  While the long term solution is to move to something
>> thread-safe like sqlite, I am of the opinion that for now we should turn off
>> this capability by default.  We would leave the capability in there, and it
>> would be turned on with:
>>
>> from yt.config import ytcfg; ytcfg["yt", "storeparameterfiles"] = "True"
>>
>> at the very top of a yt script.  Since this could disrupt some people's
>> workflows, I think a +/-1 would be helpful, along with any strong opinions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
>>
>>
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