use VERSION file

Author: flexatone

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 include src/__init__.pyi src/py.typed
 include src/*.h
+include VERSION

VERSION

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+1.2.0
+

pyproject.toml

@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "arraykit"
-version = "1.2.0"
 description = "Array utilities for StaticFrame"
 readme = { file = "README.rst", content-type = "text/x-rst" }
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 
+dynamic = ["version"]
+
 authors = [
   { name = "Christopher Ariza" },
   { name = "Brandt Bucher" },
@@ -50,3 +51,7 @@ package-dir = { "arraykit" = "src" }
 
 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
 arraykit = ["__init__.pyi", "py.typed"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = { file = "VERSION" }
+

setup.py

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 from setuptools import setup, Extension
 from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
 import site, os
+from pathlib import Path
 
-AK_VERSION = "1.2.0"
+AK_VERSION = Path("VERSION").read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip()
 
 def get_ext_dir(*components: tp.Iterable[str]) -> tp.Sequence[str]:
     dirs = []