A dtype that stores unit metadata

This is a simple proof-of-concept dtype using the (as of late 2022) experimental new dtype implementation in NumPy. It leverages the unyt library's Unit type to store unit metadata, but relies on the dtype machinery to implement mathematical operations rather than an ndarray subclass like unyt_array. This is currently mostly for experimenting with the dtype API and is not useful for real work.

Building

Ensure Meson and NumPy are installed in the python environment you would like to use:

$ python3 -m pip install meson meson-python numpy build patchelf

Build with meson, create a wheel, and install it

$ rm -r dist/
$ meson build
$ python -m build --wheel -Cbuilddir=build
$ python -m pip install --force-reinstall dist/unytdtype*.whl

The mesonpy build backend for pip does not currently support editable installs, so pip install -e . will not work.