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by ibn-python 2169 days ago
Usually for an API it indicates a breaking change. In this case the removal of some functions which might require refactoring on the consumers end.
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And to keep users on a hardware upgrade treadmill.
Do you mean removing Pascal support deprecating Maxwell? How long you'd need it to be supported to be satisfied?

Even with OSS projects discussions about ending support are not easy.

I've got confused for a sec on "removing Pascal support", as some of the 10XX GPUs are only 2 years old. Looks like Pascal stays, and Maxwell is removed indeed (it was deprecated in 10.2).
s/Pascal/Kepler/ sorry.