StaticArrays wants to deprecate FixedSizeArrays compatibility layer

[andyferris]

Heads up - I was thinking that Julia v0.7 might be a good time to add a deprecation to the StaticArrays.FixedSizeArrays module, for removal in Julia v1.0.

I noticed this package still uses that module. See JuliaArrays/StaticArrays.jl#459

[andyferris]

bump

[SimonDanisch]

uhm, we could move it to geometrytypes, i guess ;) not sure how much work it would be to get rid of it for good^^

[andyferris]

Sure, I mean Point sounds like it could be the first GeometryType from which all other GeometryTypes are born :)

I'm not sure what "for good" means in this contect but for reasons (such as Geodesy.jl) it might be helpful to have the alias AbstractPoint{N, T <: Real} = StaticArray{N, T} (I.e. points are just static arrays of Reals). Just an idea.

In any case... it would be smoothest if we remove the reference to the FixedSizeArrays module in this repo before we deprecate it from StaticArrays.

[rdeits]

Are there other significant usages of FixedSizeArrays in the wild outside of the GeometryTypes ecosystem? If not, then I think it would be fine to just copy the FixedSizeArrays compatibility layer into GeometryTypes, which would be mostly non-breaking. Then StaticArrays could deprecate and remove its implementation as needed and GeometryTypes can migrate on its own schedule.