Daniel Wenz

Refactor nv plugins

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**What is the problem / what does the code in this PR do** Refactor NV/MV hitlets computation. 1. Removes not needed parameters, to reduce required storage space. 2. Adds a...

**Describe the bug** Not necessarily a bug, but more of a missing feature? If the dtype used in [copy_to_buffer](https://github.com/AxFoundation/strax/blob/21cc96e011b0e4099138979791f34e8b1addedb7/strax/dtypes.py#L266) is reduced by a field, but using the same function name...

Extend compare_metadata

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We should add a fall back method to https://github.com/AxFoundation/strax/blob/5f9051bcb4fb4a8d46e5fd3da21e522959735352/strax/context.py#L1682 which only compares the lineages in case the current data-type is not stored. Currently, we are loading the metadata via: ```python...

The order is swapped.... https://github.com/AxFoundation/strax/blob/addc2c5b7305867c2dd3589b5b16dac88028b14b/strax/context.py#L629 Not a bug, but not nice...

Make all dtypes immutable

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Minor thing I have not thought of and which I just noticed the hard way. Imagine the following: a user works on a new plugin and would like to use...

Add option/possibility to set fuzzy for the whole plugin dependency.

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We should add beside the already existing fuzzy_for option an option which allows to ignore Option/Versions changes for the whole dependency graph of a plugin. I just had the case...

Users should be aware that lines like the following: ``` for d in data_type: data= d['data'][:d['length']] modifies_data(data) ``` will create only a "view" onto data in memory. Hence when `data`...