# Scikit-build Community Meeting #10: 2023-08-18

###### tags: scikit-build

## Agenda

* Updates

## Attending

- Matt McCormick
- Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
- Jean-Christophe Morin
- Ralf Gommers

## Discussion

- SciPy conference updates
- 3.12 updates / difficulties when not using scikit-build-core, e.g. VTK, NumPy
- dynamic-metadata
- dynamic without triggering a full build with a change
- See https://github.com/scikit-build/dynamic-metadata
- vscode
- hooks
- making sure to support version updates as a primary use case
- import hooks working well
- Way to specify external dependencies
- field in pyproject.toml called `external`
- [PEP 725](https://github.com/python/peps/pull/3293): Specifying external dependencies in `pyproject.toml`
- Depends on package-manager defined (and maintained) dependency metadata mapping package
- Debian
- conda
- spack
- sysconfig API changes
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103480
- dependency related
- add built-in support for toml to cmake ?
- https://prefix.dev/blog/launching_pixi