natcap.versioner 0.2.1

Git and hg versioning for natcap projects

Consistent versioning for NatCap Projects

This package provides a consistent versioning scheme for projects of the Natural Capital Project (http://naturalcapitalproject.org).

Versioning Scheme

How a version string is formatted:

If we are at a tag:
    version = {tag}
else:
    version = {tag}.post{N}+r{nodeid|short}

If there are no tags:
    {tag} = 'null'

Examples:

• Version string = 3.4.5

  • Meaning: This version of this tool was built from the tag 3.4.5.

  • You can update to this revision by calling hg update -r 3.4.5

• Version string = 3.4.5.post35+r788a29c99234

  • Meaning: This version of this tool was built from a revision where:

    • The latest tag was 3.4.5

    • The latest commit on this branch is 35 commits beyond the latest tag.

    • The latest commit has a shortened node ID of 788a29c99234

  • You can update to this revision by calling hg update -r 788a29c99234

Installation

Via pip: pip install natcap.versioner

Via setup.py: python setup.py install

Note

If you install natcap.versioner via pip or via setup.py, dependencies should install automatically.

Dependencies

Both these can be installed via pip.

• setuptools

• yaml

To install dependencies:

pip install setuptools pyyaml

Usage In Your Project

To use this project, you’ll need to edit two files: setup.py and __init__.py.

In your ``setup.py``

Adding these lines to your setup.py allows the DVCS information to be fetched from git or hg and recorded in the package metadata.

from setuptools import setup
import natcap.versioner

setup(
    name='example_project',
    ...
    version=natcap.versioner.parse_version()
    natcap_version='example_project/version.py',
)

In your package’s ``__init__.py``

Adding these lines to your package’s __init__.py file will allow the package version to be fetched from the package metadata.

# Let's assume your package name is still 'example_project'
import natcap.versioner
__version__ = natcap.versioner.get_version('example_project')

Support

If something doesn’t work, it’s probably broken! Please submit an issue via the issue tracker, send James an email or stop by if you’re in the office and I’ll try to fix it!

0.2.1

• Version files are now properly imported. This fixes an issue with users unable to fetch version strings from within frozen environments that are outside of a source tree.

0.2.0

• API Change: version is now parsed from setup.py using natcap.versioner.parse_version().

• Allowing the version to be correctly fetched from PKG-INFO from egg/distribution metadata even when the package has not already been built.

0.1.3

• Allowing version string to be written to a package file.

0.1.2

• Default version scheme is dvcs-based post-release now. but can also do a pre-release.

0.1.1

• Fixes installation issues where certain files needed for setup.py were missing from the source distribution.

0.1.0

• Initial public release.