Add support for NumPy >= 2.1

[Francis-dev82]

[Francis-dev82]

Do you know if this is a big change to the code base? I am sure you have other priorities just curious what the timeline might be.

[mhostetter]

I'm sure it's just bumping the max version in pyproject.toml and submitting a PR. I could maybe do it this evening.

[dimbleby]

fwiw, galois 0.4.2 still does not support numpy 2.1 - because numba 0.60 requires numpy<2.1

Also fwiw I suggest that 2.2 is an odd upper bound for this library to choose for numpy. Do you have reason to expect that 2.2 will be breaking?

I expect that in practice numba will always be the bottleneck on the numpy version that galois can use, so you might as well not bother with an upper bound at all.

[Francis-dev82]

Numba is working on this. Hopefully we will know more after the developer meeting tomorrow. https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9708

[mhostetter]

fwiw, galois 0.4.2 still does not support numpy 2.1 - because numba 0.60 requires numpy<2.1

Thanks for pointing this out. I rushed to close the PR and didn't do due diligence.

Also fwiw I suggest that 2.2 is an odd upper bound for this library to choose for numpy. Do you have reason to expect that 2.2 will be breaking? I expect that in practice numba will always be the bottleneck on the numpy version that galois can use, so you might as well not bother with an upper bound at all.

I think this is a very reasonable idea. I'll incorporate that change when I add support for Numba 0.61.