scikit-build Community Meeting #16 Notes: March 15th, 2024

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Agenda

• Henry's slides
• SciPy 2024 conference abstract

Attending

• Matt McCormick
• Henry Scheiner
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
• Aryaman Jeendgar
• Jean-Christophe Morin
• Vyas Ramasubramani

Slides

Discussion

• See Slides from @henryiii.
• hatch plugin dynamic requirements
  • May not work when building with the hatch tool (for now)
    • Use pip or build instead
• build 1.1 out
  • Saves ~4-5 seconds for some common usages (including pipx run build)
  • Next version will support using uv (optional)
• discussed https://github.com/orgs/scikit-build/discussions/1075
  • sdist.cmake = true
  • May need to have a way to specify a path relative to the build directory
• stats
  • scikit-build: ~800k / month (https://pypistats.org/packages/scikit-build)
  • scikit-build-core: ~1.5M / month (https://pypistats.org/packages/scikit-build-core)
• propagate changes from a "template" (or apply similar changes to many project). Few options:
  • use cruft
  • use repo-review to identify changes
  • use https://github.com/asottile/all-repos
    • does not use the gh command line tool
    • currently manually update the description of the pull request
  • there is also https://blog.jaraco.com/skeleton/ but we do not have experience with it
• progress related metadata 2.2/2.3, see https://discuss.python.org/t/status-or-funding-for-metadata-2-2-in-pypi/46137

Recording and Transcript

• Recording
• Transcript