Scikit-build Community Meeting #2: 2022-12-16 #825

jcfr · 2022-12-16T19:21:36Z

jcfr
Dec 16, 2022
Maintainer

Scikit-build-core
- First releases! (0.1.0 - 0.1.4)
- Conda-forge feedstock up
- First package out! (AwkwardArray v2)
- Next plans
Windows ARM support
Scikit-build classic
Design questions
Round table

Windows ARM through mac-Mini-like dev system
- ~$500
- VS 2022 has working ARM toolchain, cross-compile and build on it
- Ninja building
0.1.4 scikit-build-core works for cross-compiling
conda-forge support: some issues with feedstock systems for defining CMake generators, an issue in conda-build
Adoption transition path: scikit-build -> Full PEP 517 scikit-build-core -> scikit-build-core extension build backend
Next plans:
- persistent builds: two cases: with/without build isolation
- setuptools_scm still depends on setuptools, would be nice to remove this and allow it to be used independently.
- --config-settings support by pip should be revisited. This was discussed during last meeting (see discussion section)

Documentation: for scikit-build, recommends/describes how to use scikit-build-core as a build backend
scikit-build.github.io repository (backend for scikit-build.org)
- Pulls in scikit-build and scikit-build-core, examples repository
- Tracking like cibuildwheel

Which name for the directory ? Using build is consistent with setuptools but lead to issue when using command like python -m build as it then attempt to use the build directory as build tool.
the current build does not include the python implementation (pypy vs cpython) and lead to problem when caching directory in the context of CI
improved naming should be an opt-in

Naming
- look into what cypu and how sdk are handled
- lack of an extra tag
- suffix -sdk is sensible
In the context of VTK
- look into setting up an internal pypy server to avoid overloading pypi
- convert "sdist" to "whl", currently available at https://vtk.org/files/wheel-sdks/
@henryiii and @jcfr to work on (re-)adding support to allow (SDK) wheels to update cmake prefix path and ensure find_package calls work as expected.