Recent PRs #171 and #182 could do with a news item

[sbfnk]

Recent PRs #171 and #182 deprecated some functions and added a new one which, I think, should be accompanied by a news item

[jamesmbaazam]

Thanks. I've not been adding NEWS items because the package has not yet been released and the purpose of the NEWS/changelog, I think, is to inform the users of changes between versions?

[sbfnk]

Yes, that makes sense. We should probably flag if we add major new features vs. bpmodels but perhaps for the recent PRs it isn’t strictly needed.

[jamesmbaazam]

Yes, so the plan is to write a NEWS file for the v0.1.0 release that introduces the features of {epichains} and as you say, compare them with bpmodels and "convince" users to prefer {epichains}.