CVXPY installs are currently broken after the NumPy 2.0 release.
This PR makes sure NumPy >= 2.0 is used during the build (except Python 3.8, which does not have NumPy 2.0 wheels).
It is a backwards compatible change, as 2.0 builds work with prior NumPy versions at runtime, but not vice versa.
Hi @bodono,
CVXPY installs are currently broken after the NumPy 2.0 release. This PR makes sure NumPy >= 2.0 is used during the build (except Python 3.8, which does not have NumPy 2.0 wheels). It is a backwards compatible change, as 2.0 builds work with prior NumPy versions at runtime, but not vice versa.