# Scikit-build Community Meeting #6: 2023-04-21

###### tags: scikit-build

## Agenda

* Review [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wd2SOlR0vAhRmrWExeCDIdhJWBFVge5L55Xm1n-QMLQ/edit?usp=sharing) from @henryiii.
- Scikit-build-core (released 0.3.x & plans)
- Dynamic metadata plugins
- Scikit-build classic (released 0.17 & 0.18 plans)
- Other related work
- Planning to pick up abandoned CMake PR for moderncmakedomain rewrite. See [MR cmake#8163](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/8163)
- Pip 23.1 supports -C & lists!
- Plan to contribute a minor fix to Flit that scikit-build-core and wheel already have

* Round table

## Attending

- Matt McCormick
- Ralf Gommers
- Vyas Ramasubramani
- Henry Scheiner
- Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin

## Discussion

- Short meeting today: 30 minutes

### Slides review notes

- Dynamic metadata
- Use setuptools_scm tool

- Editable Mode
- Requires latest pip for '-C' support
- Suggest always scikit-build-core[pyproject]
- Suggest always --no-build-isolation
- Otherwise build environment deleted
- Configure in pyproject.yaml, e.g. build directory
- import project triggers a rebuild
- Specifying `editable.rebuild=true` trigger rebuild on import
- Metafinder: https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#extending-the-search-algorithm
- To extract list of installed file, see [skbuild.cmaker._parse_manifests()](https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build/blob/2e6cc59ad184f4a609a26367b6f1feb57b59b016/skbuild/cmaker.py#L744-L749) which extract the list from the `install_manifest*.txt` files.

- Entrypoints for prefix and module dirs
- RG: we should make that work without depending on PyPI's pkg-config, because it typically comes from a system package manager rather than from PyPI. I am interested to help figure that out.

- Setuptools PEP 517 (building from source) wrapper backend update

- Work on the scikit-build.org website
- include list of project using scikit-build

### SciPy US 2023 Sprints Hackathon

- Tentatively planning to hold a hackathon during the SciPy Sprints (Sat. and Sunday)

### Recording and Transcript

- NA