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Qiskit Provider for accessing the quantum devices and simulators at IBM Quantum.
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Will there be a release of qiskit-ibmq-provider that unpins the Numpy dependency? #1178

Closed isobelhooper closed 1 year ago

isobelhooper commented 1 year ago

I'm working on a project that uses the qiskit package, the latest version of which depends specifically on v0.20.2 of qiskit-ibmq-provider, and noticed that our project is now restricted to only use Numpy versions < 1.24.

Will there be a release of qiskit-ibmq-provider that includes the fix from #1171 (unpinning numpy) that qiskit is then updated to use?

Or is the correct approach to wait for a version of the qiskit package that removes qiskit-ibmq-provider entirely?

mtreinish commented 1 year ago

I think at this point there won't be another release of the qiskit-ibmq-provider that unpins numpy. I agree it would have been good to release without the pin; I forgot to push for this after proposing #1171. But yesterday Qiskit 0.44.0 was released that removed qiskit-ibmq-provider as a dependency for qiskit (you can see the release notes here: https://qiskit.org/documentation/release_notes.html#qiskit-0-44-0 ) and we're preparing the archive this repository now as it's not being maintained any longer.