[Numpy-discussion] Proposals for NumPy 1.22.0

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:19 PM Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Here are some proposals for the NumPy 1.22.0 release currently in
> development.
>
>
>    1. Drop support for Python 3.7 (3.10 will be available).
>
> NEP 29 says December 2021, so that'd be kind of borderline. It would allow
us to use positional-only parameters, which would be quite useful.

>
>    1. Drop manylinux1 wheels.
>    2. Drop manylinux2010 wheels?
>
> yes, and yes

>
>    1. Use ILP64 BLAS for 64 bit wheels.
>
> Seems fine I guess. Is there a lot of demand?

Also something I'm not sure about is if we can mix two versions (one ILP64,
one regular) of OpenBLAS in a numpy and a scipy wheel, and load them both.
It seems to work, but perhaps that's accidental today?

Cheers,
Ralf


> Thoughts?
>
> Chuck
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