[yt-dev] Old halo objects

[Britton Smith]

First off, Cameron, I'm glad you're on board with this.  As someone who
used that functionality, it's important that you're not left high and dry.

The original Halo object had a pretty limited scope and was basically only
usable inside the halo finding operations.  I would definitely like to see
us move to the new Halo object in
yt/analysis_modules/halo_analysis/halo_object.py since it's the one being
used with the HaloCatalog.  I think we can also get rid of the HaloFinder
class since we are replicating all of its functionality as well.  I think,
in general, we should be migrating all halo related functionality into
yt/analysis_modules/halo_analysis.

Britton


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know you're not asking me, but as a user of the old halo objects, I'm OK
> with this moving forward.  The only suggestion I have is a short document
> in the yt 3.0 docs explaining the switch and roughly how to replicate basic
> functionality.  I think some of that already exists, though.
>
> Cameron
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> With the new halo analysis machinery that Britton, Brian C and Hilary
>> have been working on getting integrated into mainline, do we still
>> need the old halo objects machinery?
>>
>> It seems to me that if we are able to replicate all the functionality,
>> *and* call the old halo finders, we don't need the actual code for
>> "class Halo" and "class HaloFinder" and the like.  This is the stuff
>> that's mostly in halo_objects.py in yt/analysis_modules/halo_finding/
>> .
>>
>> Britton, Brian and Hilary -- does that sound okay to you?
>>
>> -Matt
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