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Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package

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Hi Ben,

On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 10:42:53PM -0400, Ben Westover wrote:
> > > _version.py is not a copy of versioneer, it's *generated* by versioneer.
> > > However, there is versioneer.py in the root directory, which is. I'll
> > > exclude that from the source and repack.
> > 
> > hmm... how about that generated file though? shouldn't it be ... well,
> > generated at build time instead? :)
> 
> As far as I understand it, this file is used by the author of the program,
> not end users. I don't understand it well, though, because I haven't put
> much time into researching what versioneer even does.
> If my hunch is correct, I may be able to just remove the file from the
> source altogether, but I haven't tried that yet.

As far as I understand, versioneer (or the _version.py generated by
it) uses a whole bunch of heuristics to determine the version number
of the package, for example by looking at git tags and so on.  Several
times, I have found that _version.py in the PyPI release of a package
is a very small file (just a few lines long) stating the version
number of the package, while the _version.py in GitHub is huge and
doesn't work on a standalone packaged version.  If I recall correctly,
In more than one package I (co-)maintain, I've gone for the PyPI
version of this file.

Hope this helps!

   Julian

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Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com> - 2022-06-07 02:10 +0200
  Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com> - 2022-06-07 03:20 +0200
    Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 04:30 +0200
      Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com> - 2022-06-07 04:50 +0200
        Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 08:20 +0200
        Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 08:20 +0200
          Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 15:50 +0200
            Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 16:50 +0200
              Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 17:00 +0200
                Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com> - 2022-06-08 00:50 +0200
                Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-08 15:30 +0200
              Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 17:00 +0200
        Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 15:50 +0200
          Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 17:00 +0200
            Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 17:10 +0200
        Versioneer [was Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package] Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 16:30 +0200
          Re: Versioneer [was Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package] Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2022-06-08 03:30 +0200

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