Version Tracking and Display

[powerfulseal]

Version Tracking and Display

[seeker89]

Good point. We should do that. 👍

[dgzlopes]

Hey! Have been researching this one for a while. Following the fifth option here [0] we might use it for taking the version value in setup.py (and keep it as the single source of truth for the version number), and have the project code use the pkg_resources API for reading the version value. As an example:

import pkg_resources

try:
    __version__ = pkg_resources.get_distribution('powerfulseal').version
except Exception:
    __version__ = 'unknown'

This is actually how the setuptools [1] contributors manage their own version! [2].

[0] https://packaging.python.org/guides/single-sourcing-package-version/
[1] https://github.com/pypa/setuptools
[2] https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/master/setuptools/version.py

[seeker89]

I think that's a pretty neat solution to this problem. Would you like to contribute a PR with that change ?

[dgzlopes]

Sure! Working on it right now.

[mikeln]

I think we can close this one.