scikit-build Community Meeting #18, 2024-05-17

[thewtex]

Attending

• Matt McCormick
• Henry S
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
• Ryan Mast

Discussion

• Ryan's using scikit-build for software for energy simulations. See https://docs.helics.org/en/latest/
• Henry is at PyCon
  • scikit-build in talk
    • Slides on iscipynumpy.dev
    • Talk is recorded and will be online later
  • May attend Packaging Summit
  • Pinging for feedback on dynamic_metadata
• scikit-build talk accepted for SciPy Conf, proceeding submission in progress
• cibuildwheel
  • Python 3.13 shipped
  • uv support being considered
• opt-in to native build, flag wheel.cmake to false, wheel.cmake, build binary portion, pylib. See https://scikit-build-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html
  • pure + compiled example: black, mypy
  • pip uses --no-binary to build from sdist
• scikit-build-core
  • build tool args, -L for ninja
  • Free threaded, Python 3.13, manylinux with t
    • build an extension that doesn't have GIL support builtin
    • the extension needs to just use the threads
    • Stable ABI does not work with Free Threaded
      • Stable ABI 4 may support
• mirrors-prettier
  • Archived in April 2024. https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-prettier
  • prettier made some changes that breaks plugins entirely. See mirrors-prettier@f62a70a3a
  • Possible path forward would be to compile prettier to wasm and use it through wasmtime
• Binding python with web assembly
  • https://wasm.itk.org/en/latest/
  • Cross platform tooling for building https://github.com/dockcross/dockcross#readme

[henryiii]

Wow, didn't realize the mirror was archived. Without any notice on how to replace it. I don't use plugins most of the time. 6.5k projects use this hook.