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

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Agenda

• Review of slides by @henryiii

Attending

• Henry Schreiner
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin

Related Work Updates

• 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

Discussion

• 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

Recording and Transcript

• NA