Scikit-build Community Meeting #6: 2023-04-21

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Agenda

• Review slides from @henryiii.

  • Scikit-build-core (released 0.3.x & plans)
  • Dynamic metadata plugins
  • Scikit-build classic (released 0.17 & 0.18 plans)
  • Other related work
    • Planning to pick up abandoned CMake PR for moderncmakedomain rewrite. See MR cmake#8163
    • Pip 23.1 supports -C & lists!
    • Plan to contribute a minor fix to Flit that scikit-build-core and wheel already have

• Round table

Attending

• Matt McCormick
• Ralf Gommers
• Vyas Ramasubramani
• Henry Scheiner
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin

Discussion

• Short meeting today: 30 minutes

Slides review notes

• Dynamic metadata

  • Use setuptools_scm tool

• Editable Mode

  • Requires latest pip for '-C' support
  • Suggest always scikit-build-core[pyproject]
  • Suggest always --no-build-isolation
    • Otherwise build environment deleted
  • Configure in pyproject.yaml, e.g. build directory
  • import project triggers a rebuild
  • Specifying editable.rebuild=true trigger rebuild on import
  • Metafinder: https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#extending-the-search-algorithm
  • To extract list of installed file, see skbuild.cmaker._parse_manifests() which extract the list from the install_manifest*.txt files.

• Entrypoints for prefix and module dirs

  • RG: we should make that work without depending on PyPI's pkg-config, because it typically comes from a system package manager rather than from PyPI. I am interested to help figure that out.

• Setuptools PEP 517 (building from source) wrapper backend update

• Work on the scikit-build.org website

  • include list of project using scikit-build

SciPy US 2023 Sprints Hackathon

• Tentatively planning to hold a hackathon during the SciPy Sprints (Sat. and Sunday)

Recording and Transcript

• NA