scikit-build 0.5.0

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

On behalf of the scikit-build team, I am pleased to announce that the version 0.5.0 is available for download:

  pip install scikit-build


I would also like to thanks everyone who contributed.

See http://scikit-build.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html#scikit-build-0-5-0

Scikit-build 0.5.0

New features

• Improve user experience by running CMake only if needed. See #207
• Add support for cmake_with_sdist setup keyword argument.
• Add support for --force-cmake and --skip-cmake global setup command-line options.
• scikit-build conda-forge recipe added by @isuruf. See conda-forge/staged-recipes#1989
• Add support for development mode. (#187).
• Improved C Runtime, Compiler and Build System Generator selection:

• If available, uses Ninja build system generator on all platforms. An advantages is that ninja automatically parallelizes the build based on the number of CPUs.
• Automatically set the expected Visual Studio environment when Ninja or NMake Makefiles generators are used.
• Support Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7. See #216.

• Prompt for user to install the required compiler if it is not available. See #27.
• Improve targetLinkLibrariesWithDynamicLookup CMake Module extending the API of check_dynamic_lookup function:

• Update long signature: <LinkFlagsVar> is now optional
• Add support for short signature: check_dynamic_lookup(<ResultVar>). See SimpleITK/SimpleITK#80.

Bug fixes

• Fix scikit-build source distribution and add test. See #214 Thanks @isuruf for reporting the issue.
• Support building extension within a virtualenv on windows. See #119.

Documentation

• add C Runtime, Compiler and Build System Generator section
• add Release Notes section
• allow github issues and users to easily be referenced using :issue:`XY` and :user:`username` markups. This functionality is enabled by the sphinx-issue sphinx extension
• make_a_release: Ensure uploaded distributions are signed
• usage:

• Add empty cross-compilation / wheels building sections
• Add Why should I use scikit-build ?
• Add Setup options section

• hacking:

• Add Internal API section generated using sphinx-apidoc.
• Add Internal CMake Modules to document targetLinkLibrariesWithDynamicLookup CMake module.

Requirements

• setuptools: As suggested by @mivade in #212, remove the hard requirement for ==28.8.0 and require version >= 28.0.0. This allows to “play” nicely with conda where it is problematic to update the version of setuptools. See pypa/pip#2751 and ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues#542.

Tests

• Improve “push_dir” tests to not rely on build directory name. Thanks @isuruf for reporting the issue.
• travis/install_pyenv: Improve MacOSX build time updating scikit-ci-addons
• Add get_cmakecache_variables utility function.

Internal API

• skbuild.cmaker.CMaker.configure(): Change parameter name from generator_id to generator_name. This is consistent with how generator are identified in CMake documentation. This change breaks backward compatibility.
• skbuild.platform_specifics.abstract.CMakePlatform.get_best_generator(): Change parameter name from generator to generator_name. Note that this function is also directly importable from skbuild.platform_specifics. This change breaks backward compatibility.
• skbuild.platform_specifics.abstract.CMakeGenerator: This class allows to handle generators as sophisticated object instead of simple string. This is done anticipating the support for CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM and CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET. Note also that the class is directly importable from skbuild.platform_specifics and is now returned by skbuild.platform_specifics.get_best_generator(). This change breaks backward compatibility.

Cleanups

• appveyor.yml:

• Remove unused “on_failure: event logging” and “notifications: GitHubPullRequest”
• Remove unused SKIP env variable

Thanks

Jc

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