ENH: Use the semantic version instead of the C-API version in the error message for C-API incompatibility

Proposed new feature or change:

In the module generate_numpy_api, which is inside the sub package numpy.core.code_generators , there is the generation of the C method static int _import_array(void), which has an if statement like the following:

if (NPY_FEATURE_VERSION > PyArray_GetNDArrayCFeatureVersion()) {
      PyErr_Format(PyExc_RuntimeError, "module compiled against "\
             "API version 0x%%x but this version of numpy is 0x%%x", \
             (int) NPY_FEATURE_VERSION, (int) PyArray_GetNDArrayCFeatureVersion());
      return -1;
  }

I would like to change this error message to, instead of telling about the C-API version, tell about the semantic version of the numpy package. The motivation is that the error seems obscure when using this hexadecimal version that seems to have no relation to the semantic version. Would it be welcome ?

If so, I can try a PR. However, how could I trigger this error for the matter of testing my solution ? Also, is there some way to get the semantic version from the C-API ? Or should I introduce a new macro for it ?

[mattip]

We have the troubleshooting guide, the source is here. PRs are welcome. I think the date, the message, what two packages+versions caused the problem, and what version of NumPy provided a solution would be specific enough to be helpful.

[joaopfg]

@mattip @seberg I opened a PR for this one (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/21943)