サブパックの現在の状態¶
Astropyは，広範なテストのレガシーコードの追加と，新たな開発のおかげで，サブパケット間の安定性が異なる.本明細書では、ユーザが将来どのような変化が生じる可能性があり、どのサブパケットが生産コードに安全に使用できるかを理解するために、Astropyサブパケットの現在の状態をまとめた。
分類は以下のとおりである.
| Planned | |
| Actively developed, be prepared for possible significant changes. | |
| Reasonably stable, any significant changes/additions will generally include backwards-compatiblity. | |
| Mature. Additions/improvements possible, but no major changes planned. | |
| Pending deprecation. Might be deprecated in a future version. | |
| Deprecated. Might be removed in a future version. |
現在の計画と既存のサブパッケージは
| Sub-Package | Comments | |
|---|---|---|
| astropy.config | Configuration received major overhaul in v0.4. Since then on, the package has been stable. | |
| astropy.constants | The package has been stable except for the occasional additions of new constants. Since v3.0, it includes the ability to use sets of constants from previous versions. | |
| astropy.convolution | New top-level package in v0.3 (was previously part of astropy.nddata). A major consistency improvement between fft/non-fft convolution, which is not fully backward-compatible, was added in 2.0. | |
| astropy.coordinates | New in v0.2, major changes in v0.4. Subsequent versions should maintain a stable/backwards-compatible API, following the plan of APE 5. Further major additions/enhancements likely, but with basic framework unchanged. | |
| astropy.cosmology | Incremental improvements since v0.1, stable API last several versions. | |
| astropy.io.ascii | Originally developed as asciitable, and has maintained a stable API. | |
| astropy.io.fits | Originally developed as pyfits, and retains an API consistent with the standalone version. | |
| astropy.io.misc | The functionality that is currently present is stable, but this sub-package will likely see major additions in future. | |
| astropy.io.votable | Originally developed as vo.table, and has a stable API. | |
| astropy.modeling | New in v0.3. Major changes in v1.0, significant additions planned. Backwards-compatibility likely to be maintained, but not guaranteed. | |
| astropy.nddata | Significantly revised in v1.0 to implement APE 7. Major changes in the API are not anticipated, broader use may reveal flaws that require API changes. | |
| astropy.samp | Virtual Observatory service access: SAMP. This was renamed from astropy.vo.samp to astropy.samp in 2.0. | |
| astropy.stats | Likely to maintain backwards-compatibility, but functionality continually being expanded, so significant additions likely in the future. | |
| astropy.table | Incremental improvements since v0.1, mostly stable API with backwards compatibility an explicit goal. | |
| astropy.time | Incremental improvements since v0.1, API likely to remain stable for the foreseeable future. | |
| astropy.timeseries | New in v3.2, in heavy development. | |
| astropy.units | Incremental improvements since v0.4. Functionality mature and unlikely to change. Efforts focused on performance and increased interoperability with Numpy functions. | |
| astropy.utils | Contains mostly utilities destined for internal use with other parts of Astropy. Existing functionality generally stable, but regular additions and occasional changes. | |
| astropy.uncertainty | New in v3.1, in development. | |
| astropy.visualization | New in v1.0, and in development. | |
| astropy.visualization.wcsaxes | New in v1.3. Originally developed as wcsaxes and has maintained a stable API. | |
| astropy.wcs | Originally developed as pywcs, and has a stable API for now. However, there are plans to generalize the WCS interface to accommodate non-FITS WCS transformations, and this may lead to small changes in the user interface. |