[yt-dev] Data downloader

[John ZuHone]

Hi all,

What I don't like about the downloader is the directory structure it creates. At least on my machine, if I download only the sloshing dataset, I get:

GasSloshing/GasSloshing/sloshing_nomag2*

as the location of the files. Is there any reason why it ended up this way?

John

On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Stephen Skory wrote:

> Hi Matt,
> 
>> One question that's come up is: do we want to continue using
>> download.py?  The burden on uploaders is moderately higher, in that
>> the files all have to be tarred up in a particular way, and they have
>> to be added to download.py, but it does provide a measure of
>> robustness.  If we do this, can we move download.py into the main
>> distribution, under scripts/ ?  Stephen, John, others who have used
>> the script, what do you think about this?
> 
> I will not be insulted if we do away with the download script. If a
> web page of download links is easier for everyone around, that's fine
> by me. The best argument I can think of for keeping it, or something
> similar, it is forces some kind of uniformity so that the datasets are
> in an expected layout. Also, downloading tens of data dumps one at at
> time from a webpage is kind of tedious. That could be solved by having
> both the separate data dumps and a big 'ol tarball of the whole thing
> so people could get exactly what they want, but that doubles disk
> space on someone's computer.
> 
> But this isn't HIPPA medical data, so we can be loosie goosie if that
> makes things easier for everyone!
> 
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