Consider if version helper is still needed

[pllim]

https://github.com/spacetelescope/relic was written by @jhunkeler and it does automatic versioning through git tag functionality. I used it for some of my projects and find it rather convenient. Posting it here for your consideration.

[bsipocz]

I think this is an excellent topic to bring up at the meeting.

[hamogu]

I've used versioneer (https://pypi.org/project/versioneer/) in several package for this purpose and found it to work well, too.

[astrofrog]

I looked into versioneer recently and it looked like it hadn't had any repo activity for a couple of years unfortunately :-/

[saimn]

Another option is setuptools_scm, it looks pretty good and is developped by the pypa team:
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/

[astrofrog]

That looks promising, thanks!

[Cadair]

closed by APE 17 (it isn't)