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I have a python library, which is controlled by git, and bundled with distutils/setuptools. And I want to automatically generate version number based on git tags, both for setup.py sdist and alike commands, and for the library itself.
For the first task I can use git describe or alike solutions (see How can I get the version defined in setup.py (setuptools) in my package?).
And when, for example, I am in a tag '0.1' and call for 'setup.py sdist', I get 'mylib-0.1.tar.gz'; or 'mylib-0.1-3-abcd.tar.gz' if I altered the code after tagging. This is fine.
THE PROBLEM IS:
The problem comes when I want to have this version number available for the library itself, so it could send it in User-Agent HTTP header as 'mylib/0.1-3-adcd'.
If I add setup.py version command as in How can I get the version defined in setup.py (setuptools) in my package?, then this version.py is generated AFTER the tag is made, since it uses the tag as a value. But in this case I need to make one more commit after the version tag is made to make the code consistent. Which, in turns, requires a new tag for further bundling.
THE QUESTION IS:
How to break this circle of dependencies (generate-commit-tag-generate-commit-tag-...)?
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Store version string for use during install You could make a version.py in your package with a __version__ line, then read it from setup.py using execfile('mypackage/version.py') , so that it sets __version__ in the setup.py namespace.
In Fedora, our pip package Recommends setuptools. Practically that means: Majority of users who install pip will get setuptools by default. Users can explicitly uninstall setuptools after installing pip or exclude setuptools when installing pip.
the setuptools is not part of the python vanilla codebase, hence not a vanilla modules. python.org installers or mac homebrew will install it for you, but if someone compile the python by himself or install it on some linux distribution he may not get it and will need to install it by himself.
You could also reverse the dependency: put the version in mylib/__init__.py, parse that file in setup.py to get the version parameter, and use git tag $(setup.py --version) on the command line to create your tag.
git tag -a v$(python setup.py --version) -m 'description of version' Is there anything more complicated you want to do that I haven’t understood?
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