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title: 'scikit-build Community Meeting #14 January 2024'

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## Agenda 

- Henry's [Slides Review](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vsCSzBTwB9qgrR3BFZnTOmG1lkkwyNB9jn1yg_btHYI/edit?usp=sharing)
    - scikit-build-core 0.8
    - usage stats
    - scikit-build-core plans
    - other related work
    - roundtable


## Attending

- Matt McCormick
- Henry Scheiner
- Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
- Aryaman Jeendgar - CERN, copier, cookiecutter templates, HDF5 boost histogram
- Jean-Christophe Morin

## Discussion

- Use of the package templates, understanding application beyond scientific python use cases
    - Note that the templates apply to "regular" projects?
        - Development Guide page
    - Pushback from PyPA due to contention, "official"-ness

- NVIDIA / rapidsai projects: Out of 47 projects with a `pyprojects.toml` file [^1]:
  - ... 13 of them[^2] are now using scikit-build-core
  - ... 2 are still using scikit-build classic[^3]
  - There are still 6 projects[^4] using plain `setup.py` with neither scikit-build-core or scikit-build classic.
- https://py-code.org
  - Regularly updated. Allow to ana

- SciPY 2024
  - Henry can not join
  - We should still give a talk. Can collaboratively work on the content

[^1]: https://github.com/search?q=user%3Arapidsai+path%3A**%2Fpyproject.toml+&type=code&ref=advsearch&p=2
[^2]: https://github.com/search?q=user%3Arapidsai+path%3A**%2Fpyproject.toml+%22build-backend+%3D+%5C%22scikit_build_core.build%5C%22%22&type=code&ref=advsearch
[^3]: https://github.com/search?q=user%3Arapidsai+path%3A**%2Fpyproject.toml+%22%5C%22scikit-build%3E%22&type=code&ref=advsearch
[^4]: https://github.com/search?q=user%3Arapidsai+path%3A**%2Fsetup.py+%2Fcxx%7Ccpp%2F&type=code&ref=advsearch

- PEP621 implemented in GitHub metadata parsing
    - Todo for GitHub: PEP517, PEP518 build backend
        - build requirements
        - could help Dependabot with updates
        - Software Bill of Materials
        - ["Standard Python support" #3290 flying-sheep](https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/3290)
        - dependabot-core repository
        - `build-system.requires` in particular
    - GH Dependency graph API: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/dependency-graph?apiVersion=2022-11-28

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### Recording and Transcript

- [Video recording](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G4x-3nE4MUPD95FMVUVRHqWIRyV9Re9K/view?usp=sharing)
- [Transcript](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T407M_q0G-127aQNMIiyZhf_tfHbhfRvtQcLUP4p8N4/edit?usp=sharing)
    
 