Re: [ITP] python-scikit-build-core

On 23/03/2026 20:08, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 19/03/2026 14:43, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 15/03/2026 15:56, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> scikit-build-core (https://pypi.org/project/scikit-build-core/) is a 
>>> dependency of pybind11, which is itself a dependency of recent 
>>> versions of python-imaging (a package I already maintain), and as 
>>> such I'd like to package it for Cygwin.
>>>
>>> I haven't yet created a cygport file for this package, but will do 
>>> shortly.
>>>
>>> scikit-build-core is in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/ 
>>> python3-scikit-build-core
>>>
>>> This, together with pybind11, will enable me to release the current 
>>> version of python-imaging for Python 3.12 as stable, and start 
>>> working on wxPython for Python 3.12.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Hamish
>>>
>> I have now created a cygport file for this package, and it is 
>> available at: 
>> https://gitlab.com/hamishmb/cygwin-python-scikit-build-core
>
> Thanks.
>  This looks fine.
Cheers!
>
>> PATCH_URI=""
>
> You don't need to keep this around if it's empty.
Good to know, I shall remove it.
>
>> CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:${I}/usr/lib/python${v}/site-packages/pybind11/share/cmake/pybind11/ 
>> cmake ..
>
> This makes me kind of wonder if pybind shouldn't be installing these 
> files into /usr/share/cmake/ (or similar), where cmake can find them 
> by default? 

Yeah I have no idea why it isn't to be honest. Shall I ask if I can 
somehow configure this?

Best,

Hamish