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Move file caching outside of the vizier project directory

Open okennedy opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

What pain point is this feature intended to address? Please describe.

  • Vizier imports data files into the vizier project directories. This makes vizier project directories ginormous --- hard to upload to GIT, hard to use in a variety of situations.
  • Files needed by multiple projects

Describe the solution you'd like @julianafreire suggests https://www.fatiando.org/pooch/latest/ , which provides file management using a local cache repository, disconnected from any specific project folder. It also has some nice features like checksumming.

  • Integrate first-class support for pooch
  • Mimic the pooch API / allow access to pooch cache folders
  • Implement something analogous in vizier.

Describe alternatives you've considered Ginormous vizier.db folders

okennedy avatar Jan 27 '22 20:01 okennedy