scikit-build Community Meeting #14 Notes: January 19th, 2024

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Agenda

• Henry's Slides Review
  • scikit-build-core 0.8
  • usage stats
  • scikit-build-core plans
  • other related work
  • roundtable

Attending

• Matt McCormick
• Henry Scheiner
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
• Aryaman Jeendgar - CERN, copier, cookiecutter templates, HDF5 boost histogram
• Jean-Christophe Morin

Discussion

• Use of the package templates, understanding application beyond scientific python use cases

  • Note that the templates apply to "regular" projects?
    • Development Guide page
  • Pushback from PyPA due to contention, "official"-ness

• NVIDIA / rapidsai projects: Out of 47 projects with a pyprojects.toml file ¹:

  • ... 13 of them² are now using scikit-build-core
  • ... 2 are still using scikit-build classic³
  • There are still 6 projects⁴ using plain setup.py with neither scikit-build-core or scikit-build classic.

• https://py-code.org

  • Regularly updated. Allow to ana

• SciPY 2024

  • Henry can not join
  • We should still give a talk. Can collaboratively work on the content

• PEP621 implemented in GitHub metadata parsing
  • Todo for GitHub: PEP517, PEP518 build backend
    • build requirements
    • could help Dependabot with updates
    • Software Bill of Materials
    • "Standard Python support" #3290 flying-sheep
    • dependabot-core repository
    • build-system.requires in particular
  • GH Dependency graph API: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/dependency-graph?apiVersion=2022-11-28

Recording and Transcript

• Video recording
• Transcript

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/search?q=user%3Arapidsai+path%3A**%2Fpyproject.toml+&type=code&ref=advsearch&p=2 ↩

2. https://github.com/search?q=user%3Arapidsai+path%3A**%2Fpyproject.toml+%22build-backend+%3D+%5C%22scikit_build_core.build%5C%22%22&type=code&ref=advsearch ↩

3. https://github.com/search?q=user%3Arapidsai+path%3A**%2Fpyproject.toml+%22%5C%22scikit-build%3E%22&type=code&ref=advsearch ↩

4. https://github.com/search?q=user%3Arapidsai+path%3A**%2Fsetup.py+%2Fcxx%7Ccpp%2F&type=code&ref=advsearch ↩