Merge pull request #1190 from robotology/fix-pypi-wheels-with-numpy-2.0

Force installing NumPy 2.0 in CI/CD when building PyPI wheels and drop Python 3.7 and 3.8 in pip packages

.github/workflows/python.yml

@@ -95,14 +95,16 @@ jobs:
         run: python -m cibuildwheel --output-dir wheelhouse
         env:
           CIBW_BUILD_VERBOSITY: 1
-          CIBW_BUILD: cp37-*manylinux*_x86_64 cp38-*manylinux*_x86_64 cp39-*manylinux*_x86_64 cp310-*manylinux*_x86_64 cp311-*manylinux*_x86_64 cp312-*manylinux*_x86_64
+          CIBW_BUILD: cp39-*manylinux*_x86_64 cp310-*manylinux*_x86_64 cp311-*manylinux*_x86_64 cp312-*manylinux*_x86_64
           CIBW_MANYLINUX_X86_64_IMAGE: manylinux_2_28
           CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_LINUX: AUDITWHEEL_PLAT=manylinux_2_28_x86_64
           CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD_LINUX: |
             # workaround for https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-20-almalinux-8-key-update/
             rpm --import https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux &&\
             dnf update -y &&\
             dnf install -y eigen3-devel libxml2-devel
+            # Pre-install NumPy > 2.0
+            pip install "numpy>=2.0.0"
           CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: "python -c 'import idyntree.bindings'"
 
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3

bindings/python/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ swig_add_library(${target_name}
     OUTFILE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
     OUTPUT_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/idyntree)
 
+message(STATUS "Linking SWIG Python bindings against NumPy '${Python3_NumPy_VERSION}'")
 target_link_libraries(${target_name} PUBLIC Python3::NumPy)
 
 set_target_properties(${target_name} PROPERTIES