Remove all plane-related codes w/ SST

[wcmartylee]

Remove all plane-related codes due to implementation of compact (planeless) strawtubes configuration

[olantwin]

Thanks for this pull request!

Could you please prepare a presentation for Monday about these changes?

Some observations in no particular order:

• Currently there is a lot of hard-coding of detector IDs and conversions. We should probably have a set of functions to decode the ID instead of doing it by hand all over the place. (probably as part of the strawtubespoint/hit so that there is no desynchronisation between data and the way to decode the detector IDs)
• I don't like the multiple-return-by-reference style of the current decoding function. Would be nice to modernise this by e.g. returning a pair/tuple
• I assume this change will be very backwards incompatible, we should have a look how much breaks and whether there is a way to make the transition as simple as possible given reasonable effort
• The commit history is a mess
• At least the touched lines should be auto-formatted
• There is no need to modify the muflux files. I must have forgotten to remove them!

[wcmartylee]

@olantwin
Thanks for the review! Of course, I can give a presentation on the changes next Monday.

Some thoughts while I was midway of changing the detID: maybe it’s a lot easier and “safer” to leave the plane number 0 as it is. But either way, you’re right that we should have a separate function for construct and destruct. It was a pain in the ass to change them by hand.

And I’ll try to fix the commit history. (It was a learning-by-doing situation...)

[olantwin]

@olantwin Thanks for the review! Of course, I can give a presentation on the changes next Monday.

Great, I'll put you onto the agenda.

Some thoughts while I was midway of changing the detID: maybe it’s a lot easier and “safer” to leave the plane number 0 as it is. But either way, you’re right that we should have a separate function for construct and destruct. It was a pain in the ass to change them by hand.

Maybe we can do two steps: move the detID encoding/decoding to a function and then in a second step change the detector ID calculation once, in a single spot while also incrementing the version of the strawtubespoint/hit

And I’ll try to fix the commit history. (It was a learning-by-doing situation...)

No worries, 99% of what I know about git I learnt experimentally by repeatedly getting myself into trouble ;)

[olantwin]

Could you please rebase to remove the merge conflicts? They result from deleted files which didn't need updating.

[wcmartylee]

Could you please rebase to remove the merge conflicts? They result from deleted files which didn't need updating.

Just did!

[olantwin]

I think it might have been rebase the wrong way around, the Remove last vestiges of muflux
6b9bde8 commit should precede your changes

[olantwin]

@wcmartylee Any updates on this PR?

[wcmartylee]

I’m sorry... I was busy with other things and couldn’t finish this fix. I was hoping we can complete this quickly on next week’s hackathon.

[olantwin]

Indeed, for this kind of thing the hackathon should work well