Scikit-build Community Meeting #5: 2023-03-17

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Agenda

• Review slides from @henryiii.

  • Scikit-build-core (Updates, Next plans)
  • Dynamic metadata plugins. See Plan for metadata proposal scikit-build-core#230.
  • Scikit-build classic
  • Related works
    • Wheel 0.40 released with wheel tags command! (and also pyproject.toml & Ruff)
      • See feat: adding tags CLI interface pypa/wheel#422
      • Now used by cmake for Python and ninja for Python
    • Planning to pick up abandoned CMake PR for moderncmakedomain rewrite. See MR cmake#8163
    • Released CMake for Python 3.26.0
    • Scikit-build and scikit-build-core are now “ecosystem” regression checks for Ruff!
    • Working on issue with pyodide not finding pybind11
    • Next version of pip will support -C

• Round table

Attending

• Henry Schreiner (Princeton)
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin (Kitware)
• Jean-Christophe Morin (ASWF)
• Ralf Gommers (Quansight Labs)

Discussion

Slides review notes

• Dynamic metadata: Discussed use cases
• Ruff - ecosystem CI
  • Setup ecosystem CI. See Setup ecosystem CI astral-sh/ruff#3390
  • scikit-build and scikit-build-core as ruff ecosystem regression. See here

Recording and Transcript

• NA