dropping numpy 1 support?

[Dima Pasechnik]

We still support external numpy 1.x.y, but it comes at a price.

Let's drop it?

https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/40050

Dima

[Nathan Dunfield]

One possible disadvantage is that Ubuntu 24.04, one of the most common distros, uses numpy 1.26 [1].  The current SageMath package for Debian/Ubuntu is 9.5, so dropping support for numpy 1 would make it impossible to release an updated the Debian/Ubuntu SageMath package.  However, I don't know if anyone is actively working on doing so, so this may well be moot.

Best,

Nathan

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble/+package/python3-numpy

[Dima Pasechnik]

Well, numpy 1 isn't going to be be supported well on Python 3.13, so that's a bit moot one way or another. I don't think Debian is working on updating their SageMath package (and Ubuntu never had its own SageMath effort, I think)

We have only ourselves to blame for stalling on Debian effort. Until a much slimmed down sagelib-only install is well-supported, no classical Linux distro is going to deal with the 400+ - package monster SageMath is now.

 

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