From f4f450ad07547125bc5390ce91f895a92554114a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Huck <phuck@lbl.gov>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:42:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] work on release through github actions (#885)

* use scm for version
* local version override
---
 matminer/__init__.py |  8 +++++++-
 setup.py             | 13 ++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/matminer/__init__.py b/matminer/__init__.py
index 894cebca0..5733783c1 100644
--- a/matminer/__init__.py
+++ b/matminer/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-__version__ = "0.7.8"
+from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound, get_distribution
+
+try:
+    __version__ = get_distribution("matminer").version
+except DistributionNotFound:  # pragma: no cover
+    # package is not installed
+    pass
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d5a7b6cf8..87c623e5f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
 
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
+
+def local_version(version):
+    # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/issues/342
+    return ""
+
+
 module_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 
 extras_require = {
@@ -22,7 +28,12 @@
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     setup(
         name='matminer',
-        version='0.7.8',
+        use_scm_version={
+            "root": ".",
+            "relative_to": __file__,
+            "local_scheme": local_version,
+        },
+        setup_requires=["setuptools_scm"],
         description='matminer is a library that contains tools for data '
                     'mining in Materials Science',
         long_description=open(os.path.join(module_dir, 'README.md')).read(),