Scikit-build Community Meeting #12: 2023-10-20

[jcfr]

Agenda

• Henry slides review
• Discussion

Attending

• Henry Scheiner
• Cristian Le
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
• Jean-Christophe Morin

Discussion

• Optional Builld
  • Need to gather more details about use cases
  • Will consider adding a way to disable cmake download from tool.scikit-build.overrides
• scikit-build CLI
  • See https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build-cli
  • could have pip install skbuild install it
  • name of the actual CLI being discussed: skbuild, scikit_build, ...
• cython CMake module
  • @jcfr plan on working on this
• Schema
  • Standardize on using json.schemastore.org URL as $id
• conan
  • Current CMake & scikit-build integration
    • https://pypi.org/project/skbuild-conan
    • https://github.com/conan-io/cmake-conan
    • https://docs.conan.io/1/integrations/build_system/cmake.html
    • https://docs.conan.io/2/integrations/cmake.html
  • Discussion related to CMake new dependency providers
    • Discussion of cmake-conan evolving towards Dependency Provider. conan-io/cmake-conan#475
• pixi
  • software package manager build on top of the existing conda ecosystem
  • See https://prefix.dev/

Slides review notes

• Review slides from @henryiii.
• Scikit-build-core:
  • Updates:
    • Released 0.5.1 and 0.6.0
    • Two new docs pages: Build procedure, FAQs
  • Support for overrides
  • schema
    • Available in repo (and as a validate-pyproject plugin)
    • Available from https://json.schemastore.org/scikit-build
    • Most editors now understand our config
  • Next plans
    • Pyproject builder backend:
      • Optional builds / Think about hooks for extending scikit-build-core
    • Setuptools backend
      • Work on editable mode
      • Fill out remaining 4 keywords:
        • install_dir will be tricky to make backward compatible!
      • Support classic variables (only when wrapping via skbuild.setup)
      • Document using the PEP 517 wrapper with older scikit-build
    • Dynamic-metadata (now a package):
      • Finalize - is v1 needed?
    • Scikit-build-cli
      • Development in progress
• Related work
  • Received PyPI increase for cmake. See Project Limit Request: cmake - 50 GB pypi/support#3135
  • Will try to push for pyproject-metadata update
  • Need to do a pybind11 update soonish
  • @henryiii has been helping with validate-pyproject
  • CPython 3.12 out, cibuildwheel updated, etc.
  • SchemaStore (VSCode and most other editors)
    • Added scikit-build schema
    • Added cibuildwheel schema
    • Added setuptools schema
    • Pushed along hatch schema