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CCXCon API
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Place the version in a VERSION text file, or remove `setup.py` #47

Open bdero opened 8 years ago

bdero commented 8 years ago

There are two places where a version is stated: ccxcon/settings.py and setup.py. We can store the version in a VERSION file and have that be the source of truth for the version, as a simple solution.

This also has the benefit of making updating the version as trivial as it can be with a release script (echo "$major.$minor.$patch" > VERSION)

But also, is there a reason we should keep setup.py? I'm cool with having it even just for onlookers who want to see some useful metadata, but I'm not sure if people will want to run CCXCon by installing it into a python environment (always possible, though). Thoughts?

justinabrahms commented 8 years ago

I don't know many web apps that distribute their app via setuptools. There's clearly some metadata there, but I don't know that it's particularly useful. I'd be fine with not having it.