scikit-build Developer Meeting #23.5: 2024-11-01 #1125

jcfr · 2024-11-11T20:20:22Z

jcfr
Nov 11, 2024
Maintainer

cibuildwheel
- Version 2.22: Dependency groups (test-groups) enabled
- Version 3.0: Likely to include iOS/Android support, build backend defaults, and pypy opt-in
- Anticipating Graalpy support soon
pyproject-metadata
- Released
Nox
- Preparing updates for the next release
UV
- uv init --lib --build-backend scikit added

Awaiting packaging release with support PEP 639: Improving License Clarity with Better Package Metadata
UV now supports scikit-build-core:
- Documentation: uv CLI reference
- Code reference: project_build_backend.rs
Henry's NSF Proposal:
- Aiming for LLVM on WASM, driven by the Awkward project
- Collaboration with Vassil from Princeton (compiler-research.org)
- Goal: Enable running Numba directly on WASM
Free-threading Support in scikit-build-core
- FindPython: Ensures a usable environment for free-threaded Python
- Fixed in CMake MR 9775 (version 3.30.3)
- Potential to backport updates to scikit-build-core