The pipeline has in various places a bunch of now-unnecessary code for dealing with older FITS files that don't comply to the standard format: really old ones that don't put the data in an image extension, ones that don't have the right header keywords, etc. See the code in gpi_load_fits, or the entire function gpi_load_and_preprocess_fits_file.
Now that we've got essentially the final file format, and there is little cause to go back and reprocess pre-2012 data with the current pipeline, I think most of this code could simply be deleted. Anyone have any objections to that?
The pipeline has in various places a bunch of now-unnecessary code for dealing with older FITS files that don't comply to the standard format: really old ones that don't put the data in an image extension, ones that don't have the right header keywords, etc. See the code in gpi_load_fits, or the entire function gpi_load_and_preprocess_fits_file.
Now that we've got essentially the final file format, and there is little cause to go back and reprocess pre-2012 data with the current pipeline, I think most of this code could simply be deleted. Anyone have any objections to that?