[Numpy-discussion] backwards compatibility and deprecation policy NEP

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Marten van Kerkwijk <
m.h.vankerkwijk at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> Rather, we might state that "At some point in the future, the NumPy
>> development team may no longer interested in maintaining workarounds for
>> specific subclasses, because other interfaces for extending NumPy are
>> believed to be more maintainable/preferred."
>>
>> That sentence I think covers it very well. Subclasses can and should be
> expected to evolve along with numpy, and if that means some numpy-version
> dependent parts, so be it (we have those now...).  It is just that one
> should not remove functionality without providing the better alternative!
>

Thanks for the input both, that makes sense. I'll try and rewrite the
section along these lines.

Cheers,
Ralf
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