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https://github.com/jbweston/miniver

Like Versioneer, but smaller
https://github.com/jbweston/miniver

minimal python version-manager versioneer

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# Miniver

[![license: CC0-1.0](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/miniver.svg)][cc0]

[![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/miniver.svg)][pypi]

[![CI status](https://github.com/jbweston/miniver/workflows/test/badge.svg)][ci]



**Like [versioneer][versioneer], but smaller**



Miniver is a **mini**mal **ver**sioning tool that serves the same purpose

as [Versioneer][versioneer], except that it only works with Git and

multiplatform support is still experimental.



#### Why would I use this?

If you are developing a Python package inside a Git repository and

want to get the version directly from Git tags, rather than hard-coding

version strings everywhere.



This is the same problem that Versioneer solves, but Miniver is less

than 200 lines of code, whereas Versioneer is over 2000. The tradeoff

is that Miniver only works with Git and Python 3.5 (or above).



Support for Python 2 is not a goal, as Python 2 is fast approaching its

end of life (2020), and we want to encourage people to use Python 3!

That being said, Christian Marquardt has a [fork that also

works with Python 2](https://github.com/cmarquardt/miniver2)



[versioneer]: https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer

[cc0]: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

[pypi]: https://pypi.org/project/miniver/

[ci]: https://github.com/jbweston/miniver/actions?query=workflow%3Atest



## Usage

The simplest way to use Miniver is to run the following in your project root:

```

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jbweston/miniver/master/miniver/app.py | python - install 

```

This will grab the latest files from GitHub and set up Miniver for your project.



### I get an `unknown` version!

The version is reported as `unknown` (plus the current git hash) when there are no valid tags

in the git history. You should create an [*annotated tag*](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging)

so that Miniver reports a reasonable version.



If your project uses *unannotated tags* for versioning (though this is not the

[recommended way](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11514075/what-is-the-difference-between-an-annotated-and-unannotated-tag))

then you'll need to run the following in order to modify Miniver's behaviour:

```

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jbweston/miniver/master/unannotated-tags.patch | patch /_version.py

```



### I don't want to type that URL every time I use this

You can `pip install miniver`, which will give you the `miniver` command.

Then you can simply run the following from your project root to use Miniver:

```

miniver install 

```



### Can I use this without executing random code from the internet?

Sure! Copy `miniver/_version.py` and `miniver/_static_version.py` from this

repository into your package directory, then copy the following snippets into

the appropriate files:



```python

# Your package's __init__.py

from ._version import __version__

del _version

```



```python

# Your project's setup.py



from setuptools import setup



# Loads _version.py module without importing the whole package.

def get_version_and_cmdclass(pkg_path):

    import os

    from importlib.util import module_from_spec, spec_from_file_location

    spec = spec_from_file_location(

        'version', os.path.join(pkg_path, '_version.py'),

    )

    module = module_from_spec(spec)

    spec.loader.exec_module(module)

    return module.__version__, module.get_cmdclass(pkg_path)



version, cmdclass = get_version_and_cmdclass('my_package')



setup(

    name='my_package',

    version=version,

    cmdclass=cmdclass,

)

```



```

# Your project's .gitattributes

my_package/_static_version.py export-subst

```



replacing `'my_package'` in the above with the name of your package

(this should be the same as the name of the directory into

which you copied the contents of `miniver`).



That's it!



## License

Miniver is in the public domain under a CC0 license.