DiscoverVersion

This package automatically discover version information for a package. It tries the following option to get the version of the package:

• Inspect a PKG-INFO file
• Ask git, if the current directory is a git-repository
• Ask importlib.metadata

It is intended as a lightweight replacement for setuptools_scm.

Usage

To use automatic version discovery with your build system of choice , here flit, add the following lines to your pyproject.toml:

[build-system]
requires = ["flit_core>=3.2", "DiscoverVersion"]
build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi"

[project]
dynamic = ['version']
dependencies = ['DiscoverVersion']

The add the following to your toplevel __init__.py:

from DiscoverVersion import get_version

__version__ = get_version('my_package_name')

Note that it is important to hard code the name of your package in the call to get_version.

Tests

Before being able to run tests, you need to execute

pip install -e .[test] 

to editably install the code.