problem with specific version of numpy

[Petr-Hlavenka]

Setup.py specifies exact version of numpy.

'numpy==1.19.5'

is there a strong reason why? It causes problems with the conflict resolution and cannot be installed on python 3.10+ because that is not compatible with the numpy-1.19.5 at all.

Can we have instead this boundary?

'numpy>=1.19.5'

[sgoadhouse]

The reason for exactly 1.19.5 being specified is that I was attempting to maintain minimal support for python 3.6 as pyvisa does. It appears that numpy > 1.19.5 is not compatible with python 3.6 & 3.7 but if you specify >=1.19.5 and it is python 3.6, the latest numpy will attempt to be installed and it will fail.

However, I discovered that I can specify ==1.19.5 for python <3.8 and >=1.19.5 for python >= 3.8, which is what I did.

I also fixed an issue where I specified pyvisa-py>=0.5.1 but 0.5.1 has since been yanked since I last edited this and produces warnings/errors when installing. That should be fixed now by specifying pyvisa-py>=0.5.2.

Try it out and let me know how it works.