Scikit-build Community Meeting #11: 2023-09-15

[thewtex]

Agenda

• Henry slides review
• Discussion

Attending

• Matt McCormick
• Henry Scheiner
• Jean-Christophe Morin

Discussion

• NumFOCUS Summit -- Francesc Alted had a good talk praising scikit-build-core
  • Stable ABI
  • Windows Support
• Jean-Christophe M released wheels for https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX and it's using scikit-build-core
  • Plugin: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/blob/main/python/mtx_skbuild_plugin.py
  • wheel.packages supports identification of the python directory?
  • Great improvement over setuptools :-)
  • https://pypi.org/project/materialx/
• Apple ARM coming at some point on GitHub Actions

Slides review notes

• Henry's Slides
• repo-review validates [tool.scikit-build] pypackage.toml's contents
  • skbuild_model.py
  • skbuild_schema.py
  • CMake minimum version, build type, etc.
• dynamic metadata rewrite
  • nested project support in progress
  • TBD: versioning with v1, draft, drop? -- feedback welcome on issue / draft PR
• SDist name normalization
  • -'s and .'s to _'s
  • Same as wheels
• setuptools_scm 8 released -> we will likely provide a patch release for support
  • being renamed into something like vcs_versioning
• Optional builds
  • Pure python backup if C/C++ cannot be built
  • May need Python hooks
  • Example projects needed
• PEP 720 cross-compiling description
  • Windows and macOS support, Linux to be confirmed
  • ARM on Windows difficult due to FindPython deficiencies in cross-compiling support
    • Can manually be enabled via CMake variables
  • next PEP to improve CPython's sys.config cross-compilation information posting