Scikit-build 0.13.0

[henryiii]

This is likely one of the final releases to support Python 2.7 and 3.5; future releases will likely target at least Python 3.6+ and MSCV 2017+.

If you are using scikit-build via pyproject.toml, please remember to include setuptools and wheel. A future version of scikit-build may remove the setuptools install-time hard requirement.

New Features

• CMake module /cmake-modules/Cython now uses Cython default arguments. This no longer adds --no-docstrings in Release and MinSizeRel builds, so Cython docstrings are now retained by default. Additionally, --embed-positions is no longer added to Debug and RelWithDebInfo builds. Users can enable these and other Cython arguments via the option CYTHON_FLAGS. See Cannot embed docstrings due to hard-coded options in UseCython.cmake #518 and Use default Cython flags to include Cython docstrings by default. #519, thanks to @bdice for the improvement.
• Experimental support for ARM64 on Windows. Thanks to @gaborkertesz-linaro in Add ARM64 as a new Windows platform #612.
• Support for MSVC 2022. Thanks to @tttapa for the contribution in feat: add VS2022 support on Windows #627.
• Support the modern form of target_link_libraries, via SKBUILD_LINK_LIBRARIES_KEYWORD (somewhat experimental). Thanks to @maxbachmann in Add option to use modern form of target_link_libraries #611.

Bug fixes

• Update the Ninja path if using the ninja package. This fixes repeated isolated builds. Further path inspection and updates for isolated builds may be considered in the future. fix: pull ninja path if module available #631, thanks to @RUrlus and @segevfiner for help in tracking this down.
• Allow OpenBSD to pass the platform check (untested). See fix: allow openbsd to pass platform check #586.
• Avoid forcing the min macOS version. Behaviour is now inline with setuptools. Users should set MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET when building (automatic with cibuildwheel), otherwise you will get the same value Python was compiled with. Note: This may seem like a regression for PyPy until the next release (7.3.8), since it was compiled with 10.7, which is too old to build with on modern macOS -
  manually set MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET (including setting it if unset in your setup.py) for PyPy until 7.3.8. fix: avoid forcing the macOS version #607
• Fix logging issue when using Setuptools 60.2+. fix: support setuptools 60.2+ #623
• MacOS cross compiling support fix (for conda-forge) for built-in modules. Thanks to @isuruf for the contribution in Assume success for osx_dynamic_lookup when cross compiling #622.
• Better detection of the library path, fixes some issues with PyPy. Thanks to @rkaminsk for the contribution in Improve detection of python library path #620 and Detect python library on macos + pypy #630. PyPy
  is now part of our testing matrix as of ci: test pypy #624. Also @robtaylor in fix: detect python library on Focal Fossa #632.
• Fixed issue when cross-compiling on conda-forge (probably upstream bug, but easy to avoid). fix: conda cross-compile issue fix #646.

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This discussion was created from the release Scikit-build 0.13.0.