Re: Configuration options [was: Policy question - to PM3D or not to PM3D?]

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 02:25 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> After that, I'd propose making the BINARY_DATA_FILE permanent too.  
> It would unify the code flow for ASCII, binary, 2D, 3D.  
> I can put together a patch for that down the road.  

I am opposed to removing the EXPERIMENTAL warnings on that one.
The binary data file code is still very messy, and having it set off
by conditional flags is the only way anyone will ever be able to find
pieces for cleanup.

Which reminds me... I did some small amount of such cleanup recently.
You might have a look and see how much of the special-casing of the
BINARY code is not necessary.

What I really hope to see is gradual cleanup and consolidation of
the binary and ascii code, to the point that there are hardly any
special BINARY_DATA_FILE pieces remaining.  At that point removing
the warning and the conditional coding would make sense.


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