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@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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