Unused `io_runner.py` file?

[cphyc]

yt/yt/utilities/parallel_tools/io_runner.py

Line 19 in d1b60b3

class IOCommunicator(BaseIOHandler):

I could not find any mention of this file or its content anywhere in the code. Is this dead code? It looks like the latest commits are more than 10+ years ago.

[matthewturk]

Interestingly, this post-dates yt-3.0, and may even still kinda function?

It has some reasonable utility to it and we may want to consider bringing it back at some point. Let's just make sure that libyt doesn't rely on it (@cindytsai ) , which is a remote chance, and then I suppose we can ditch it.

The idea isn't the worst ... but this never took off as is.

[cindytsai]

Hi @matthewturk and @cphyc,

libyt doesn't rely on this. I don't see yt-4.x using this anywhere in the code either, but I didn't check yt-3.x.