scikit-build Developer Meeting #21.5: Friday, September 6th, 2024

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Agenda

• Review slides from @henryiii.
  • scikit-build-core updates
  • Plans
  • Other related work
• Round table

Attending

• Henry Schreiner
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin

Discussion

• Discussed cmake.prefix entry-point can fail when it is pointing to a MultiplexedPath scikit-build-core#885
• Support cmake to bootstrap ?
  • Idea: add custom local backend in cmake package itself
• Setuptools implemented some changes to support specifying extension module in pyproject.toml
  • See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#v74-1-0 and Implement declarative ext-modules in pyproject.toml ("experimental") pypa/setuptools#4568

Recording and Transcript

• NA