Claire's Monster

This PR still has issues, but I think it is more maintainable than the setuptools+CMake. So the plan was to move to CMake, then to use hatch back-end and create...

So, if I undersand correctly, Henry will build a plugin for hatch which would use scikit-build-core and be able to interact with hatch, but I think what I thought we...

Right, I meant `hatchling`, but the backend would be `scikit-build-core`, with a `tools.scikit-built.hatchling.xxx` then what would we use it for? what is `coincurve` missing without `hatchling` in the current state...

> The plugin would live at the build system layer i.e. Hatchling I took a brief look and it seems to me that it is similar to the hooks/plugin of...

Right, I think I understand, though the pyproject.toml should have hatchling as build-backend, then specify the configuration of scikit-build-core with a plug-in, correct? Hatchling seems more tailored to something like...

What do you think about `scikit-build-cli`? It may not be too difficult to create a hatch plugin, this way we could move on to using hatchling and have a more...

Yes, I thought that was the model you were looking for. I dug a bit more on scikit and I think the plugin is intended to be something like`build-backend =...

I am too superficial! After more digging, this is exactly what Henry is working on (last commit 4 days ago). He is developing it inside a branch, so I thought...

Oh, you're not collaborating with him? So, I am copying his progress into a standalone plugin that I will install locally to test out

Hmmm ... I don't want to be ridiculed by an undergraduate student though ... maybe I should drop him a note before I get entangled