On Apr 15, 2021, at 09:54, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:38:41 -0700 > Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >> On Apr 14, 2021, at 23:11, Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> You wrote the original PEP, so of course you can withdraw it (or reject >>> it), but... >>> >>> Are you sure? See this discussion, I don't think it's as simple as all that. >> >> From a library maintainers point of view, I personally want to get away from >> using __version__ strings at all. They’re kind of a pain to remember to >> bump on every new release. > > This is often handled using `setuptools_scm` or `versioneer` (see PyPI > for each of these packages).
Yep, exactly. (I knew about and had in mind setuptools_scm but I didn’t know about versioneer; thanks for that reference!) -Barry
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