Scikit-build Community Meeting #8: 2023-06-16

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Agenda

• Review slides from @henryiii.

  • Scikit-build-core updates
  • Scikit-build-core plans
  • Scikit-build classic & plans
  • User story: nanobind
  • Update on numbers of users
  • Other related work
  • Scientific-Python Development Guide

• Round table

Attending

• Jean-Christophe Morin
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
• Henry Scheiner

Discussion

• Student working with Henry
• CrossCompiling: Load CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR from environment.
  • MR-8543 merged. Expected for CMake 3.28.
• CI for NetBSD & SunOS
  • Look into https://github.com/vmactions
• Adoption of scikit-build-core went from ~30 to ~84 in the past month (GHCS)
• Last month focus on the Scientific Python Developer Guide
  • See https://learn.scientific-python.org/development/
  • Next cross-linking with https://repo-review.readthedocs.io
• python-cmake-buildsystem
  • See https://github.com/python-cmake-buildsystem/python-cmake-buildsystem
  • May be worth resuming discussion
  • https://discuss.python.org/t/revisiting-the-case-for-cmake-as-a-primary-cross-major-plats-build-config/11758