Published sdist (7.18.1) cannot be installed from source — it omits version.py; sdists built from HEAD are fine

[sethc555]

Installing posthoganalytics from source fails:

$ docker run --rm python:3.12 pip install --no-binary :all: posthoganalytics
...
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'version'

The published 7.18.1 sdist does not contain the version.py that setup.py imports — but an sdist built from current HEAD includes it and installs cleanly (verified). So this looks like a release-tooling artifact rather than a code bug: the next release built the normal way should fix it, no code change needed.

Found while build-checking popular PyPI packages for source-install breakage (wheelproof); claims verified twice in clean python:3.12 containers.

[dustinbyrne]

Thanks @sethc555.

Quick look into this and posthog-python is unaffected, this is strictly posthoganalytics (which is a package we use internally)

[sethc555]

Thanks for the quick look @dustinbyrne — agreed, the posthog package's sdist is fine; this report is specifically about the posthoganalytics distribution on PyPI. Worth noting it does have public consumers installing it from PyPI (not just internal use), and for anyone building it from source the sdist is currently uninstallable. Since sdists built from this repo's HEAD include version.py and work, whatever cuts the next posthoganalytics release should fix it with no code change.