Location of sub-commands

[LecrisUT]

What are your opinions on where the sub-commands should reside? In this repo or in scikit-build-core[cli]?

• if we have it in this repo the dependencies in skbuild-core are minimized, but it is less flexible about changing the upstream api, like how we call cmake.configure, and vice-versa if we move the subcommands
• in both cases there should be some integration testing that we can call from one-another
• how will we handle the version dependencies? We'll keep backwards compatibility on this cli or move lower-upper bound dependency?

[henryiii]

I think inside this repo. That keeps scikit-build-core clean and with minimal dependencies. Since we control both packages, we can pin somewhat (>=0.6,<.7) - we can release a new version once we know 0.7 won't change the API, etc. Though the basics should be pretty stable, and scikit-build-core is supposed to be usable as a plugin.

[henryiii]

FYI, we are having our monthly scikit-build community meeting tomorrow, 12 EDT if you'd like to join. https://meet.google.com/dvx-jkai-xhq