Re: setuptools with a GitHub non-release

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 04:34:44PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> I'm trying to (locally) package a non-release from a GitHub commit on 
> a branch that is after the latest release on that branch and I get 
> an error from setuptools:
> 
> LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version for [...]
> 
> Make sure you're either building from a fully intact git repository or PyPI tarballs. Most other sources (such as GitHub's tarballs, a git checkout without the .git folder) don't contain the necessary metadata and will not work.
> 
> For example, if you're using pip, instead of https://github.com/user/proj/archive/master.zip use git+https://github.com/user/proj.git#egg=proj
> 
> How do I handle this?

Find out if you can easily patch out the setuptools-scm version
detection, e.g. by providing a fixed version in the
setup.py/pyproject.toml file. You'll have to read the setuptools_scm
documentation for details.
 Thomas