Scikit-build Developer Meeting #25: 2024-12-20

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Agenda

• Review slides from @henryiii.
  • scikit-build(-core, mostly)
  • Other related work
  • Round table

Attending

• Henry Schreiner
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
• Cristian Le

Related Work Updates

• Cibuildwheel
  • Initial PRs for version 3 expected to land soon
• pyproject-metadata
  • Will drop Python 3.7 support in the next release
• validate-pyproject
  • Needs updates to support nested schemas
• Nox
  • Progress is slow, but a new release is approaching
• PEP 735 – Dependency Groups in pyproject.toml
  • Moving to PyPA. See https://peps.python.org/pep-0735/

Discussion

• scikit-build-core

  • PEP 639 PR basically ready
  • Consider dropping Python 3.7 support, as PEP 639 won’t be supported on that version.

• Review discussion: How do I get the limited API version from wheel.py-api into USE_SABI?

  • We will move forward with addressing #958 by ensuring the variable SKBUILD_SABI_VERSION is set

• cmake-FindVcvars

  • Highlighted during discussions with CMake developers, based on this this-post.
  • Decision to re-open CMake MR 899 and work on contributing the module to CMake.

Recording and Transcript

• NA