vcversioner 0.13.0.1

Use version control tags to discover version numbers

vcversioner

In-depth documentation: https://vcversioner.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Elevator pitch: you can write a setup.py with no version number specified, and vcversioner will find a recent properly-formatted git tag and extract the version number from it.

To quote myself:

It’s much more convenient to be able to use your version control system’s tagging mechanism to derive a version number than to have to duplicate that information all over the place.

I ended up copy-pasting the same code into a couple different setup.py files just to avoid duplicating version information. But, copy-pasting is dumb and unit testing setup.py files is hard. Thus: vcversioner.

Basic use

vcversioner installs itself as a distutils hook, which makes its use exceedingly simple:

from setuptools import setup

setup(
    # [...]
    setup_requires=['vcversioner'],
    vcversioner={},
)

The presence of a vcversioner argument automagically activates vcversioner and updates the project’s version. In most cases, the following line should also be added to MANIFEST.in:

include version.txt