How to make a release without version bumping?

[wookayin]

I've spent more than hour to figure out how to make a release while using setuptools_scm, but it's documented nowhere properly. Some relevant issues are #143 and #767, as well as a SO thread, but they seem pretty outdated.

Here's how I am doing:

# pyproject.toml                                                   

[build-system]                                                     
requires = ["setuptools>=45", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2", "wheel"]

[tool.setuptools_scm]                                              
version_scheme = "release-branch-semver"
write_to = "mypackage/_version.py"                                   

setup.py:

setup(
   name='mypackage',
   # version='...',      # no version= ...
)

Running python setup.py sdist always shows the development version:

$ git checkout -b release-v1.1

# Note that the latest tagged version is v1.0
$ python setup.py --version 
1.1.0.dev35+g5478274

$ python setup.py sdist
(generates 1.1.0.dev35+g5478274 in the metadata)

I tried branch v1.1, creating a tag v1.1 but doesn't work -- it would simply bump up to version to 1.2.0dev0 instead.

I would want to have the version simply set as '1.1' to make a release, but there seems no way to prohibit setuptools_scm from changing the version. Any hints? I hope documentations about how to make a release can be improved.

[wookayin]

Surprisingly, when the following section exists in pyproject.toml,

[tool.setuptools_scm]
write_to = "pkg/_version.py"

setup(version=...) will be completely ignored and the version will be always set by setuptools_scm (no overriding allowed).

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

It's not clear what you are doing, is the version file by chance checked into git instead of being ignored?

[wookayin]

No, _version.py is gitignored and not tracked (for sure). What else informaiton are you looking for? I think I provided enough information and code excerpts.

Basically, if setuptools_scm is installed, and pyproject.toml configures setuptools_scm in [build-system], python setup.py --version will ignore setup.py version and always show a devel version managed by setuptools_scm. I'd like to know what's a recommended way for release process.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

The output of the SETUPTOOLS_SCM_DEBUG=1 python setup.py - -version would help

[wookayin]

$ git clone https://github.com/wookayin/gpustat
$ cd gpustat
$ git checkout 5a18b1c16ab523d0b9709dd835cf354432b28c3b    # release/1.1
$ cat setup.py | grep __version__
__version__ = '1.1.0'
...
version=__version__,

pyproject.toml:

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools>=45", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2", "wheel"]

[tool.setuptools_scm]
write_to = "gpustat/_version.py"

The debug output:

$ SETUPTOOLS_SCM_DEBUG=1 python setup.py --version

finalize hook {'name': 'gpustat', 'version': '1.1.0', 'author': 'Jongwook Choi', 'author_email': 'wookayin@gmail.com', 'maintainer': None, 'maintainer_email': None, 'url': 'https://github.com/wookayin/gpustat', 
... (omitted) ...
}
abs root {'root': '.', 'relative_to': 'pyproject.toml'}
file pyproject.toml
root '/home/wookayin/gpustat'
relative_to 'pyproject.toml'
dist name: gpustat
version_from_ep setuptools_scm.parse_scm /home/wookayin/gpustat
looking for ep setuptools_scm.parse_scm /home/wookayin/gpustat
found ep EntryPoint(name='.git', value='setuptools_scm.git:parse', group='setuptools_scm.parse_scm') in /home/wookayin/gpustat
GIT_EDITOR nvim
----
cmd:
     git --git-dir /home/wookayin/gpustat/.git rev-parse --show-prefix
 in: /home/wookayin/gpustat
GIT_EDITOR nvim
out:

real root /home/wookayin/gpustat
GIT_EDITOR nvim
----
cmd:
     git --git-dir /home/wookayin/gpustat/.git describe --dirty --tags --long --match "*[0-9]*"
 in: /home/wookayin/gpustat
GIT_EDITOR nvim
out:
     v1.0-37-g5a18b1c

----
cmd:
     git --git-dir /home/wookayin/gpustat/.git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
 in: /home/wookayin/gpustat
GIT_EDITOR nvim
out:
     release/1.1

----
cmd:
     git --git-dir /home/wookayin/gpustat/.git -c log.showSignature=false log -n 1 HEAD --format=%cI
 in: /home/wookayin/gpustat
GIT_EDITOR nvim
out:
     2023-04-05T10:17:35-04:00

tag v1.0
tag 'v1.0' parsed to {'version': 'v1.0', 'prefix': '', 'suffix': ''}
version pre parse v1.0
version <Version('1.0')>
version v1.0 -> 1.0
EntryPoint(name='.git', value='setuptools_scm.git:parse', group='setuptools_scm.parse_scm') <ScmVersion 1.0 dist=37 node=g5a18b1c dirty=False branch=release/1.1>
scm version <ScmVersion 1.0 dist=37 node=g5a18b1c dirty=False branch=release/1.1>
config {'version_scheme': 'guess-next-dev', 'local_scheme': 'node-and-date'}
ep found: guess-next-dev
version 1.1.dev37
ep found: node-and-date
local_version +g5a18b1c
1.1.dev37+g5a18b1c

Expected: 1.1.0 (it should not override version=... in setup.py)

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Thanks for the note, as far as I can tell this is a oversight in the code for self config, it should warn/fail if Version is statically configured as keyword

It's also incorrect usage to set Version while using setuptools_scm

I believe a example for the release Branch semver as release scheme is needed

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

please try again with the current version of setuptools_scm - a bug regading config loading vs setup.py usage has been resolved

the last output indicates using the default config instead of the release branch semver one