Tag-based dynamic versioning

Author: Sparks29032

README.rst

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ If you prefer to install from sources, after installing the dependencies, obtain
 `GitHub <https://github.com/diffpy/diffpy.utils/>`_. Once installed, ``cd`` into your ``diffpy.utils`` directory
 and run the following ::
 
-   pip install -e .
+   pip install .
 
 To check the installation integrity, if the following passes all checks, you are good! ::
 
@@ -75,9 +75,12 @@ https://github.com/diffpy/diffpy.utils.
 
 Feel free to fork the project and contribute.  To install diffpy.utils
 in a development mode, with its sources being directly used by Python
-rather than copied to a package directory, use ::
+rather than copied to a package directory, use the following in the root
+directory ::
+
+   pip install -e .
 
-   python setup.py develop --user
+Note that this is only supported for `setuptools` version 62.0 and above.
 
 
 CONTACTS

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=62.0"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=62.0", "setuptools-git-versioning<2"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "diffpy.utils"
-version = "3.2.7"
+dynamic=['version']
 authors = [
   { name="Simon J.L. Billinge group", email="[email protected]" },
 ]
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ maintainers = [
 description = "Shared utilities for diffpy packages."
 keywords = ["text data parsers", "wx grid", "diffraction objects"]
 readme = "README.rst"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 classifiers = [
         'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
         'Environment :: Console',
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ classifiers = [
         'Operating System :: POSIX',
         'Operating System :: Unix',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
@@ -38,6 +37,12 @@ classifiers = [
 Homepage = "https://github.com/diffpy/diffpy.utils/"
 Issues = "https://github.com/diffpy/diffpy.utils/issues"
 
+[tool.setuptools-git-versioning]
+enabled = true
+template = "{tag}"
+dev_template = "{tag}.post{ccount}"
+dirty_template = "{tag}.post{ccount}"
+
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
 where = ["src"]  # list of folders that contain the packages (["."] by default)
 include = ["diffpy*"]  # package names should match these glob patterns (["*"] by default)