PyGMT version is not dynamic in develop mode?

[seisman]

Full code that generated the error

I have the full git repository of the PyGMT project, and then run the following commands:

# Checkout master branch and install it
$ cd pygmt/
$ git checkout master
$ make install

# Check current PyGMT version
$ python -c "import pygmt; print(pygmt.__version__)"
v0.3.1.dev3+g27c09271

# Checkout the v0.3.0 tag and check the PyGMT version
$ git checkout v0.3.0
HEAD is now at 65b099a5 Changelog entry for v0.3.0 (#887)
$ python -c "import pygmt; print(pygmt.__version__)"
v0.3.1.dev3+g27c09271

As shown above, should the version string to v0.3.0 when I checked out the v0.3.0 tag?

[seisman]

Related to pypa/setuptools-scm#518

[weiji14]

Don't think there's much we can do with this, other than using post commit/checkout hooks as mentioned in pypa/setuptools-scm#518 (comment). Maybe something that could be added to #1593.

Closing for now.

[seisman]

Maybe we can try https://github.com/jwodder/versioningit. According to this post,
https://www.nijho.lt/post/best-python-dev-tooling/#-7-versioningit-version-management-with-git-tags, it works with editable installations.

[seisman]

Changed my mind and I think we should use the more official setuptools_scm although it has some limitations. Close again.