[GitHub] [avro] kojiromike commented on pull request #865: AVRO-2814: Add __version__ to __init__.py (PEP396)

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kojiromike commented on pull request #865:
URL: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/865#issuecomment-620064783


   I'll try to look at this in depth after work. This kind of change has been on my mind, and I'm happy someone is taking it on. That said, I'm concerned of effects with interacting with the way the avro project copies files like VERSION.txt into the py subdir. So I want to make sure it doesn't get in the way of different folks' workflows.
   
   What I'd _really_ like to do is use a tool like [setuptools-scm](https://pypi.org/project/setuptools-scm/) to derive the version from git and avoid having to modify files outside of version control; however, with Avro's svn history and approach to branching, I never was able to get setuptools-scm to do what I wanted.


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