Lars-Dominik Braun <[email protected]> writes:
Hello Ricardo,
So… since numpy 1.20 is the exception here, could we perhaps …
rename it? And then have python-numba import that renamed
module
“totally-not-numpy” instead of “numpy”? Could we thus avoid
this
conflict? If renaming is an option — how would it be done? Is
it
enough to rename the “numpy” directory with “numpy-1.20”, the
“numpy.py” file with “numpy-1.20.py”, and then update all
“import”
statements both by numpy itself and by python-numba?
I feel this is a dangerous idea. Python is dynamically typed and
if we
– somehow – end up with objects from both, numpy 1.20 and numpy
1.21
in the same program, which can still happen when renaming,
things may
go wrong very badly. [1] says versions 1.* are ABI compatible,
but the
API changes between releases, which is probably why numba cannot
be used
with a newer numpy.
Can we rewrite the entire graph to use numpy 1.20 whenever a
package
imports numba?
After a quick discussion on IRC we decided to make 1.20 the
default and keep 1.21 as python-numpy-next. Let’s hope we can
switch to 1.21 for good soon.
--
Ricardo
