Names that MOSAIC used to export and no longer does. Each raises an error saying what it was and what to call instead.
Usage
lock_python_env(...)
run_LASER(...)
run_laser(...)
make_LASER_config(...)
get_default_LASER_config(...)Details
Nothing is silently absorbed. The alternative – accepting an argument or a name and quietly doing something else – is precisely the failure mode of CLAUDE.md lesson #13, where a back-compat shim silently reverted user settings to defaults for fifteen versions with no warning. A loud error is cheaper than a deprecation cycle and far safer than silence.
v0.70.0 – the LASER naming. LASER named the Python
laser-cholera package that MOSAIC used to shell out to. The engine has
been pure R since v0.68.0 and the dependency went in v0.69.0, so the name
pointed at something that no longer exists. run_LASER() is now
run_simulation, make_LASER_config() is
make_simulation_config, and get_default_LASER_config()
– a byte-for-byte duplicate of get_default_config with zero
callers – is gone in favour of the latter.
v0.67.0 – the Dask/Coiled backend. Removed with the distributed
backend: the dask_spec argument to run_MOSAIC() /
run_rolling_cv(), plus check_coiled_workspace() and
mosaic_dask_presets() (both deleted outright in v0.70.0, one minor
version after the engine cutover, as scheduled).