Neuroshare.org no longer exists---drop neuroshare support?

[sanjayankur31]

neuroshare.org no longer exists, and the python neuroshare package has not seen a release since 2016:

https://pypi.org/project/neuroshare/#history

This indicates that neuroshare is no longer an active project. Should we consider dropping it from neo perhaps?

[zm711]

I would say as long as people have the format and it is acceptable with python/numpy constraints then we can keep supporting it. Unless you see clear problems with the IO, no?

We recently discussed our IO deprecation policy: #1460.

[sanjayankur31]

I wasn't aware that it's a format---the neuroshare pypi page made me think it was primarily to work with the neuroshare.org API, which no longer exists.

Yeh, can be deprecated whenever the policy allows.

[zm711]

python-neo/neo/io/neuroshareapiio.py

Line 39 in 60d7033

class NeuroshareapiIO(BaseIO):

looks like the suffix is .mcd I never use it, but just in case. Thanks for checking though!