Added scm version tracking

cadquery/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+from importlib.metadata import version, PackageNotFoundError
+
+try:
+    version__ = version("cadquery")
+except PackageNotFoundError:
+    # package is not installed
+    pass
+
 # these items point to the OCC implementation
 from .occ_impl.geom import Plane, BoundBox, Vector, Matrix, Location
 from .occ_impl.shapes import (

setup.py

@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ if not is_rtd and not is_appveyor:
 
 setup(
     name="cadquery",
-    version=version,
+    # version=version,
+    use_scm_version=True,
     url="https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery",
     license="Apache Public License 2.0",
     author="David Cowden",
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ setup(
     long_description=open("README.md").read(),
     packages=find_packages(exclude=("tests",)),
     python_requires=">=3.8,<3.11",
+    setup_requires=["setuptools_scm"],
     install_requires=reqs,
     extras_require={
         "dev": ["docutils", "ipython", "pytest", "black==19.10b0", "click==8.0.4",],