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.. _subpackage-stability:

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Stability of Subpackages
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.. This document is derived from docs/stability.rst in Astropy.  See
   licenses/Astropy_LICENSE.rst in PlasmaPy's directory.

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This document summarizes the stability of PlasmaPy's subpackages so that
users understand where they might expect changes in the future, and
which subpackages they can safely use for production code. Please note
that backward compatibility is not guaranteed for the ``0.*.*`` series
of development releases. Starting with version ``1.0.0``, the major
version number will be incremented when a release contains backward
incompatible changes.

The classification is as follows:

.. raw:: html

    <style>
         .planned:before {
              color: #cbcbcb;
              content: "⬤";
         }
         .dev:before {
              color: #ffad00;
              content: "⬤";
         }
         .stable:before {
              color: #4e72c3;
              content: "⬤";
         }
         .mature:before {
              color: #03a913;
              content: "⬤";
         }
         .pendingdep:before {
              color: #a84b03;
              content: "⬤";
         }
         .deprecated:before {
              color: #ff0000;
              content: "⬤";
         }
    </style>

    <table align='center'>
      <tr>
        <td align='center'><span class="planned"></span></td>
        <td>Planned</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align='center'><span class="dev"></span></td>
        <td>Actively being developed. Be prepared for possible significant changes.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align='center'><span class="stable"></span></td>
        <td>Reasonably stable. Any significant changes/additions will generally include backwards-compatibility.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align='center'><span class="mature"></span></td>
        <td>Mature.  Additions/improvements possible, but no major changes planned. </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align='center'><span class="pendingdep"></span></td>
        <td>Pending deprecation.  Might be deprecated in a future version.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align='center'><span class="deprecated"></span></td>
        <td>Deprecated.  Might be removed in a future version.</td>
      </tr>
    </table>

PlasmaPy's planned and existing subpackages are:

.. raw:: html

    <table border="1" class="docutils stability" align='center'>
        <tr>
            <th class="head">
                Subpackage
            </th>
            <th class="head">
                &nbsp;
            </th>
            <th class="head">
                Comments
            </th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                plasmapy.analysis
            </td>
            <td align='center'>
                <span class="dev"></span>
            </td>
            <td>
                This subpackage is currently under development.
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                plasmapy.diagnostics
            </td>
            <td align='center'>
                <span class="dev"></span>
            </td>
            <td>
                This subpackage is currently under development.
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                plasmapy.dispersion
            </td>
            <td align='center'>
                <span class="dev"></span>
            </td>
            <td>
                This subpackage is currently under development.
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                plasmapy.formulary
            </td>
            <td align='center'>
                <span class="dev"></span>
            </td>
            <td>
                The API of this subpackage is likely to change in future releases.
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                plasmapy.particles
            </td>
            <td align='center'>
                <span class="dev"></span>
            </td>
            <td>
                The API of this subpackage is likely to change in future releases.
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                plasmapy.plasma
            </td>
            <td align='center'>
                <span class="dev"></span>
            </td>
            <td>
                This subpackage is currently under development.
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                plasmapy.simulation
            </td>
            <td align='center'>
                <span class="dev"></span>
            </td>
            <td>
                This subpackage is currently under development.
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                plasmapy.tests.helpers
            </td>
            <td align='center'>
                <span class="dev"></span>
            </td>
            <td>
                This subpackage is currently under development.
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                plasmapy.utils
            </td>
            <td align='center'>
                <span class="dev"></span>
            </td>
            <td>
                This subpackage is currently under development.
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>