convert cooling tables to ASDF, drop HDF5 dependency #740
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Describe the proposal
Users have a lot of trouble compiling against a working version of HDF5. However, we only use HDF5 to read the cooling tables. It would be good to avoid it altogether. Some HDF5 versions are also buggy, and we've wasted time working around that.
Describe alternatives you've considered
We could stick with HDF5, or we could use a raw binary format that we implement ourselves (but why do that?)
Additional context
ASDF is used in the astronomical community, and is currently supported by STSci.
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