def METHOD_NAME(calib_dir, verbose):
  """XXX Should really review the SLAC progress since last time
  around!  XXX Note that this is all SLAC-specific (as is the whole
  thing, I guess).
  """
  # XXX Can this fail?  How?
  sections = calib2sections(calib_dir)
  if (sections is None):
    return (None)
  return sections2phil(sections, verbose)