BLD: Start simplifying setup

Start simplifying setup

Author: bashtage

.gitattributes

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 * text=auto
 
+statsmodels/_version.py export-subst

MANIFEST.in

@@ -32,3 +32,5 @@ include cythonize.dat
 prune */__pycache__
 
 global-exclude *~ *.swp  *.pyc *.pyo *.bak
+include versioneer.py
+include statsmodels/_version.py

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 #
-from statsmodels.version import short_version, full_version
-release = short_version
+from statsmodels import __version__
+release = __version__
 # The full version, including dev tag.
-version = full_version
+version = __version__
 
 # set inheritance_graph_attrs
 # you need graphviz installed to use this

setup.cfg

@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ filterwarnings =
     ignore:Using a non-tuple:FutureWarning:scipy.signal
     ignore:Using a non-tuple:FutureWarning:scipy.stats.stats
 
+
+[versioneer]
+VCS = git
+style = pep440
+versionfile_source = statsmodels/_version.py
+versionfile_build = statsmodels/_version.py
+tag_prefix = v
+parentdir_prefix = statsmodels-
+
+
 [flake8]
 exclude=.git,build,docs
 select=