Hi everyone, * Ben Westover <kwestover...@gmail.com> [2022-06-06 22:42]:
As far as I understand it, this file is used by the author of the program, not end users. I don't understand it well, though, because I haven't put much time into researching what versioneer even does.
Versioneer is meant to simplify version tracking for the developer; it supports a number of authoritative sources such as "git describe" to determine the current version number. There are two modes of operation:
- in developer mode, versioneer detects the version number dynamically. This is what you'll see if you use the (Git) repository sources. - in install mode, the release version number is statically embedded. This is what you'll see if you download from PyPI. Internally, these modes are realized by two different _version.py files; the developer version is usually added to version control, and the setuptools "build" and "sdist" steps are intercepted to insert the static _version.py as needed. In my experience, it Just Works with pybuild, so I wouldn't bother with any special treatment; the versioneer.py source is public domain, so you're not going to run into any licensing issues. Cheers Timo -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ │ Timo Röhling │ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ │ 9B03 EBB9 8300 DF97 C2B1 23BF CC8C 6BDD 1403 F4CA │ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
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