Versioneer making 'untagged' version strings - now breaking upload to PyPI

[DavidT3]

For some reason versioneer is making version strings without tags in them, even though there are previous tags available.

This seems to happen on my dev computer and during the github action that builds and sends to PyPI (this is new) - PyPI of course won't accept such a version file so I can't do new releases till this is fixed.

I'm experimenting with versioneer settings (I never really got along with this module), but if I can't fix it I might have to try versioningit (https://github.com/jwodder/versioningit)

[DavidT3]

I have solved this locally while still using versioneer - I'm not entirely comfortable with the way I did it, because I altered _version.py and removed some generality (I altered the call to git describe so that the 'match' flag isn't only looking for digit-based tag names (plus whatever prefix is specified).

However, I think it is safe because this is my own local version, and I do only make tags with the vx.y.z format.

As to why this is happening, somehow my local shell (zsh, Apple M1 Pro) may not have the same glob syntax as other shells or environments - the part of the --match flag that is [[:digit:]]* doesn't produce any matches with my tags when I run it on my dev machine (with the latest tag being v0.4.5-232-g5f827ed-dirty for instance, it should). However when running on another machine (a linux environment, Ubuntu 22.04) the same flag works fine.

Using versioneer may not be sustainable in the longer term (I didn't realize it isn't really maintained anymore), and I've yet to see if this will work when I try to run the GitHub action, but it'll do for now

[DavidT3]

So the tag is definitely being checked out, which is good news

[DavidT3]

Didn't mean to close that.

I think the issues is now probably exactly that which I changed in the _version.py file in xga - but actually in the versioneer.py file which is in the top level (as that is what setup.py actually calls). I'm going to modify it and see.

[DavidT3]

So, test PyPI publish now works fine (and the version number is FINALLY correct). So I'll do the actual publish and see how that goes

[DavidT3]

All is well - v0.5.0 of XGA is released, and I've even solved the problem I've had for years where versioneer wasn't setting the actual version in the built version of the package.