Scikit-build Community Meeting #13: 2023-11-17

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Agenda

• Henry's slides
• Discussion

Attending

• Matt McCormick
• Henry Scheiner
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
• Rolf Gommers
• Vyas Ramasubramani
• Jean-Christophe Morin

Discussion

• RG: isn't the "silent fallback to pure Python" thing a really old pattern that should be discouraged? performance regression are typically very large. it seems to predate the sane build deps support for things like Cython
  • todo: check with projects using feature whether alternative approaches work
• github-release transition to scikit-build GitHub org
• Anaconda scikit-build-core adoption, filing issues
• https://groups.google.com/g/cython-users/c/rfXzsHvT4mw
• Cython & editable install
  • https://groups.google.com/g/cython-users/c/rfXzsHvT4mw
  • Support editable installs of Cython pxd files scikit-build-core#516 (comment)

Slides review notes

• Overrides now in main
  • if.any.* - any item true
  • if.env - environment variable integration
• Pure python wheel support
• Undefined symbols and response file
  • https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/18536