scikit-build Developer Meeting #18: June 7th, 2024

[thewtex]

Agenda

• SciPy 2024

Attending

• Matt McCormick
• Henry Scheiner
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin

Discussion

• SciPy 2024 Paper in draft

• Windows FreeThreading support

  • FindPython
    • Fixed in CMake master

• next:

  • hatchling editable install support
  • build section configuration consolidation
  • invoking vcvars
  • Python build configuration state sharing improvements
    • gh-82909: Update PC/pyconfig.h to allow disabling pragma based auto-linking python/cpython#19740
    • https://peps.python.org/pep-0720/
    • https://ffy00.github.io/python-environments/
      • https://ffy00.github.io/python-environments/image-data.html#image-data--page-root
      • -> standard format for cross-compiling
  • wheel being integrated into packaging moving towards API support to generate a wheel
    • Added an API for working with wheel files pypa/packaging#805

Recording and Transcript

• NA

[henryiii]

I remembered what I wanted to mention. I'm also planning on adding an "auto" choice for several values. minimum-requires="auto" would read the scikit-build-core>=X setting from build-system.requires. cmake.version = "auto" would try to read the CMake minimum from the CMakeLists.txt.