Drop deprecated auto-self-downcasts

[inducer]

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[inducer]

@connorjward This is another thing that might be worth a look. The gunk that this drops will no longer be needed by loopy after inducer/loopy#1023, so I'd like to get rid of it before too long. It has been deprecated (with warnings) for a while. Merging this will break old loopy.

I'd be happy to coordinate with you on the timeline for merging and releasing this.

[connorjward]

@connorjward This is another thing that might be worth a look. The gunk that this drops will no longer be needed by loopy after inducer/loopy#1023, so I'd like to get rid of it before too long. It has been deprecated (with warnings) for a while. Merging this will break old loopy.

I'd be happy to coordinate with you on the timeline for merging and releasing this.

Our next release is scheduled for early October. We are quite used to handling upstream breaking changes (looking at you PETSc) so I am not concerned. And since our releases use versioned releases of loopy this isn't an immediately breaking changes for our users (and if you make a new release that breaks us we can make a patch release with a pin in short order).

In short: early warning of things breaking is super welcome, but don't let us hold you up and merging early (and hence well in advance of our next release) is actually best.