[yt-dev] When can we turn off serialization by default?

[Sam Skillman]

I think we can make it disabled-by-default now.  I think we may want to
update the docs on saving projections.  It's not clear to me how to save a
projection from:
http://yt-project.org/doc/analyzing/objects.html#storing-and-loading-objects
and I couldn't find a better doc page for projection/2d data object storage.

Anyways, I'm +1 on disabling serialization by default, and would be +0 on
getting rid of it completely.

Sam



On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to turn off serialization by default.  This includes:
>
> 1) Projections
> 2) Grid hierarchy
> 3) Field lists
>
> and maybe other things.  In general, I think it's a bad idea to just
> litter directories with new files, and specifically I think it's a bad
> idea to store 2&3 since they are a huge source of errors for new and
> existing users.
>
> My preference would be to disable all auto-serialization of anything
> and make that not possible, mandating explicit, manual saves of data
> instead.  However I recognize that is likely unpopular, as even though
> my simulations have a lot of data on disk, I know that they also take
> a relatively short time to project.
>
> So when can we make it disabled-by-default?  2.6?  3.0?  Now?
>
> -Matt
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