BaseRaw + io module

[agramfort]

I'd like to summarize what I feel needs to be done on the BaseRaw class + io module. Here are the few steps I would take

• rename mne.fiff to mne.io
• mv mne/fiff/evoked.py to mne/evoked.py. It's much more natural to type mne.read_evoked etc...
• mv mne/fiff/pick.py to mne/pick.py
• add all the necessary deprecation warnings
• make sure all examples still run
• update all examples
• make sure the doc still builds

then introduce a BaseRaw class in mne/io/base.py , define the interface and update the base class in every object in the Raw family

do I forget something?

any volunteer? :)

[dengemann]

@agramfort the problem I see is that using a proper ABC class won't allow for inheritance. All methods expected by the API will be needed to be implemented by the advanced user, if only wrapping super calls to the base class. I'm not sure this is really what we want.

[agramfort]

abstract methods should be only the methods required by subclasses.

the other methods are inherited

[agramfort]

duplicate