The source project of this merge request has been removed.
Copy pipeline.py from gstlal to lal.
If any of the Backwards Incompatible check boxes are ticked please provide a justification why this change is necessary and why it needs to be done in a backwards incompatible way.
this is a verbatim copy of gstlal's pipeline.py, which was forked from glue in 2019 to be converted to python 3, and before that was in use for many years.