refactor: move hathor settings to yaml configuration files [part 2/2]

[glevco]

Depends on #593

Acceptance Criteria

• Remove unused python configuration files

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[jansegre]

The changes seem correct. But I would prefer to either hold them off for 0.55.0 (instead of 0.54.0 which is on track to have YAML settings support), or have a better mechanism for steering people to the correct way to use settings if they are using the old mechanism (mentioned here).

[glevco]

@jansegre

The changes seem correct. But I would prefer to either hold them off for 0.55.0 (instead of 0.54.0 which is on track to have YAML settings support), or have a better mechanism for steering people to the correct way to use settings if they are using the old mechanism (mentioned here).

Backwards compatibility has been added as explained in #593 (comment). But if people are inheriting from our python modules, I agree we should not delete them in a transitioning release. What do you think should be done with this PR? Should I close it and reopen when it's time, or do we just leave it here, waiting?

[glevco]

I'm closing this PR and moving it to the Parking Lot. We'll release the backwards compatible version in #593 , and eventually reopen this one when we are sure the python modules can be removed.