setup versioneer

.gitattributes

@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
 *.feather filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
 *.pkl filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
 resources/machine_learning/data/soil_moisture_mwe.feather filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+saqc/_version.py export-subst

LICENSES/Unlicense.txt

+This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
+
+Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.
+
+In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and
+successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this software under copyright law.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+For more information, please refer to <http://unlicense.org/>

docs/conf.py

@@ -24,11 +24,14 @@ package_path = os.path.abspath("..")
 os.environ["PYTHONPATH"] = ":".join((package_path, os.environ.get("PYTHONPATH", "")))
 
 # ---------- Version string --------------------------------------------------
-# read the version string without importing it
-vdict = {}
-with open("../saqc/version.py") as f:
-    exec(f.read(), vdict)
-version = vdict["__version__"]
+# TODO: what for we need `version` and the `release` variables for ?
+
+# import saqc for versioning, but prevent plots to pop up
+# by setting mpl backend to non-interactive
+import saqc.funcs
+
+version = saqc.__version__
+saqc.funcs.tools._MPL_DEFAULT_BACKEND = "Agg"
 
 # -- Customize logging -------------------------------------------------------
 

pyproject.toml

 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ
-#
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 [tool.isort]
@@ -11,3 +10,14 @@ addopts = "--strict-markers"
 testpaths = "tests"
 markers = "slow: marks tests as slow (deselect with '-m \"not slow\"')"
 
+[tool.versioneer]
+VCS = "git"
+style = "pep440"
+versionfile_source = "saqc/_version.py"
+versionfile_build = "saqc/_version.py"
+tag_prefix = "v"
+parentdir_prefix = "saqc-"
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "versioneer[toml]==0.29"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
\ No newline at end of file

saqc/_version.py

+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
+
+# This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# feature). Distribution tarballs (built by setup.py sdist) and build
+# directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
+# that just contains the computed version number.
+
+# This file is released into the public domain.
+# Generated by versioneer-0.29
+# https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer
+
+"""Git implementation of _version.py."""
+
+import errno
+import functools
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+
+
+def get_keywords() -> Dict[str, str]:
+    """Get the keywords needed to look up the version information."""
+    # these strings will be replaced by git during git-archive.
+    # setup.py/versioneer.py will grep for the variable names, so they must
+    # each be defined on a line of their own. _version.py will just call
+    # get_keywords().
+    git_refnames = "$Format:%d$"
+    git_full = "$Format:%H$"
+    git_date = "$Format:%ci$"
+    keywords = {"refnames": git_refnames, "full": git_full, "date": git_date}
+    return keywords
+
+
+class VersioneerConfig:
+    """Container for Versioneer configuration parameters."""
+
+    VCS: str
+    style: str
+    tag_prefix: str
+    parentdir_prefix: str
+    versionfile_source: str
+    verbose: bool
+
+
+def get_config() -> VersioneerConfig:
+    """Create, populate and return the VersioneerConfig() object."""
+    # these strings are filled in when 'setup.py versioneer' creates
+    # _version.py
+    cfg = VersioneerConfig()
+    cfg.VCS = "git"
+    cfg.style = "pep440"
+    cfg.tag_prefix = "v"
+    cfg.parentdir_prefix = "saqc-"
+    cfg.versionfile_source = "saqc/_version.py"
+    cfg.verbose = False
+    return cfg
+
+
+class NotThisMethod(Exception):
+    """Exception raised if a method is not valid for the current scenario."""
+
+
+LONG_VERSION_PY: Dict[str, str] = {}
+HANDLERS: Dict[str, Dict[str, Callable]] = {}
+
+
+def register_vcs_handler(vcs: str, method: str) -> Callable:  # decorator
+    """Create decorator to mark a method as the handler of a VCS."""
+
+    def decorate(f: Callable) -> Callable:
+        """Store f in HANDLERS[vcs][method]."""
+        if vcs not in HANDLERS:
+            HANDLERS[vcs] = {}
+        HANDLERS[vcs][method] = f
+        return f
+
+    return decorate
+
+
+def run_command(
+    commands: List[str],
+    args: List[str],
+    cwd: Optional[str] = None,
+    verbose: bool = False,
+    hide_stderr: bool = False,
+    env: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
+) -> Tuple[Optional[str], Optional[int]]:
+    """Call the given command(s)."""
+    assert isinstance(commands, list)
+    process = None
+
+    popen_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = {}
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        # This hides the console window if pythonw.exe is used
+        startupinfo = subprocess.STARTUPINFO()
+        startupinfo.dwFlags |= subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW
+        popen_kwargs["startupinfo"] = startupinfo
+
+    for command in commands:
+        try:
+            dispcmd = str([command] + args)
+            # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+            process = subprocess.Popen(
+                [command] + args,
+                cwd=cwd,
+                env=env,
+                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                stderr=(subprocess.PIPE if hide_stderr else None),
+                **popen_kwargs,
+            )
+            break
+        except OSError as e:
+            if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
+                continue
+            if verbose:
+                print("unable to run %s" % dispcmd)
+                print(e)
+            return None, None
+    else:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to find command, tried %s" % (commands,))
+        return None, None
+    stdout = process.communicate()[0].strip().decode()
+    if process.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s (error)" % dispcmd)
+            print("stdout was %s" % stdout)
+        return None, process.returncode
+    return stdout, process.returncode
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(
+    parentdir_prefix: str,
+    root: str,
+    verbose: bool,
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Try to determine the version from the parent directory name.
+
+    Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes both
+    the project name and a version string. We will also support searching up
+    two directory levels for an appropriately named parent directory
+    """
+    rootdirs = []
+
+    for _ in range(3):
+        dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+        if dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+            return {
+                "version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix) :],
+                "full-revisionid": None,
+                "dirty": False,
+                "error": None,
+                "date": None,
+            }
+        rootdirs.append(root)
+        root = os.path.dirname(root)  # up a level
+
+    if verbose:
+        print(
+            "Tried directories %s but none started with prefix %s"
+            % (str(rootdirs), parentdir_prefix)
+        )
+    raise NotThisMethod("rootdir doesn't start with parentdir_prefix")
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "get_keywords")
+def git_get_keywords(versionfile_abs: str) -> Dict[str, str]:
+    """Extract version information from the given file."""
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # keywords. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import _version.py,
+    # so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not used from
+    # _version.py.
+    keywords: Dict[str, str] = {}
+    try:
+        with open(versionfile_abs, "r") as fobj:
+            for line in fobj:
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["full"] = mo.group(1)
+                if line.strip().startswith("git_date ="):
+                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                    if mo:
+                        keywords["date"] = mo.group(1)
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+    return keywords
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "keywords")
+def git_versions_from_keywords(
+    keywords: Dict[str, str],
+    tag_prefix: str,
+    verbose: bool,
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Get version information from git keywords."""
+    if "refnames" not in keywords:
+        raise NotThisMethod("Short version file found")
+    date = keywords.get("date")
+    if date is not None:
+        # Use only the last line.  Previous lines may contain GPG signature
+        # information.
+        date = date.splitlines()[-1]
+
+        # git-2.2.0 added "%cI", which expands to an ISO-8601 -compliant
+        # datestamp. However we prefer "%ci" (which expands to an "ISO-8601
+        # -like" string, which we must then edit to make compliant), because
+        # it's been around since git-1.5.3, and it's too difficult to
+        # discover which version we're using, or to work around using an
+        # older one.
+        date = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
+    refnames = keywords["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("keywords are unexpanded, not using")
+        raise NotThisMethod("unexpanded keywords, not a git-archive tarball")
+    refs = {r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")}
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = {r[len(TAG) :] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)}
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = {r for r in refs if re.search(r"\d", r)}
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs - tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %s" % ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix) :]
+            # Filter out refs that exactly match prefix or that don't start
+            # with a number once the prefix is stripped (mostly a concern
+            # when prefix is '')
+            if not re.match(r"\d", r):
+                continue
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %s" % r)
+            return {
+                "version": r,
+                "full-revisionid": keywords["full"].strip(),
+                "dirty": False,
+                "error": None,
+                "date": date,
+            }
+    # no suitable tags, so version is "0+unknown", but full hex is still there
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using unknown + full revision id")
+    return {
+        "version": "0+unknown",
+        "full-revisionid": keywords["full"].strip(),
+        "dirty": False,
+        "error": "no suitable tags",
+        "date": None,
+    }
+
+
+@register_vcs_handler("git", "pieces_from_vcs")
+def git_pieces_from_vcs(
+    tag_prefix: str, root: str, verbose: bool, runner: Callable = run_command
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Get version from 'git describe' in the root of the source tree.
+
+    This only gets called if the git-archive 'subst' keywords were *not*
+    expanded, and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short
+    version string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+    """
+    GITS = ["git"]
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GITS = ["git.cmd", "git.exe"]
+
+    # GIT_DIR can interfere with correct operation of Versioneer.
+    # It may be intended to be passed to the Versioneer-versioned project,
+    # but that should not change where we get our version from.
+    env = os.environ.copy()
+    env.pop("GIT_DIR", None)
+    runner = functools.partial(runner, env=env)
+
+    _, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--git-dir"], cwd=root, hide_stderr=not verbose)
+    if rc != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("Directory %s not under git control" % root)
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --git-dir' returned error")
+
+    # if there is a tag matching tag_prefix, this yields TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty]
+    # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
+    describe_out, rc = runner(
+        GITS,
+        [
+            "describe",
+            "--tags",
+            "--dirty",
+            "--always",
+            "--long",
+            "--match",
+            f"{tag_prefix}[[:digit:]]*",
+        ],
+        cwd=root,
+    )
+    # --long was added in git-1.5.5
+    if describe_out is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git describe' failed")
+    describe_out = describe_out.strip()
+    full_out, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if full_out is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse' failed")
+    full_out = full_out.strip()
+
+    pieces: Dict[str, Any] = {}
+    pieces["long"] = full_out
+    pieces["short"] = full_out[:7]  # maybe improved later
+    pieces["error"] = None
+
+    branch_name, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--abbrev-ref", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    # --abbrev-ref was added in git-1.6.3
+    if rc != 0 or branch_name is None:
+        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --abbrev-ref' returned error")
+    branch_name = branch_name.strip()
+
+    if branch_name == "HEAD":
+        # If we aren't exactly on a branch, pick a branch which represents
+        # the current commit. If all else fails, we are on a branchless
+        # commit.
+        branches, rc = runner(GITS, ["branch", "--contains"], cwd=root)
+        # --contains was added in git-1.5.4
+        if rc != 0 or branches is None:
+            raise NotThisMethod("'git branch --contains' returned error")
+        branches = branches.split("\n")
+
+        # Remove the first line if we're running detached
+        if "(" in branches[0]:
+            branches.pop(0)
+
+        # Strip off the leading "* " from the list of branches.
+        branches = [branch[2:] for branch in branches]
+        if "master" in branches:
+            branch_name = "master"
+        elif not branches:
+            branch_name = None
+        else:
+            # Pick the first branch that is returned. Good or bad.
+            branch_name = branches[0]
+
+    pieces["branch"] = branch_name
+
+    # parse describe_out. It will be like TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty] or HEX[-dirty]
+    # TAG might have hyphens.
+    git_describe = describe_out
+
+    # look for -dirty suffix
+    dirty = git_describe.endswith("-dirty")
+    pieces["dirty"] = dirty
+    if dirty:
+        git_describe = git_describe[: git_describe.rindex("-dirty")]
+
+    # now we have TAG-NUM-gHEX or HEX
+
+    if "-" in git_describe:
+        # TAG-NUM-gHEX
+        mo = re.search(r"^(.+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)$", git_describe)
+        if not mo:
+            # unparsable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
+            pieces["error"] = "unable to parse git-describe output: '%s'" % describe_out
+            return pieces
+
+        # tag
+        full_tag = mo.group(1)
+        if not full_tag.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            if verbose:
+                fmt = "tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'"
+                print(fmt % (full_tag, tag_prefix))
+            pieces["error"] = "tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" % (
+                full_tag,
+                tag_prefix,
+            )
+            return pieces
+        pieces["closest-tag"] = full_tag[len(tag_prefix) :]
+
+        # distance: number of commits since tag
+        pieces["distance"] = int(mo.group(2))
+
+        # commit: short hex revision ID
+        pieces["short"] = mo.group(3)
+
+    else:
+        # HEX: no tags
+        pieces["closest-tag"] = None
+        out, rc = runner(GITS, ["rev-list", "HEAD", "--left-right"], cwd=root)
+        pieces["distance"] = len(out.split())  # total number of commits
+
+    # commit date: see ISO-8601 comment in git_versions_from_keywords()
+    date = runner(GITS, ["show", "-s", "--format=%ci", "HEAD"], cwd=root)[0].strip()
+    # Use only the last line.  Previous lines may contain GPG signature
+    # information.
+    date = date.splitlines()[-1]
+    pieces["date"] = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
+
+    return pieces
+
+
+def plus_or_dot(pieces: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """Return a + if we don't already have one, else return a ."""
+    if "+" in pieces.get("closest-tag", ""):
+        return "."
+    return "+"
+
+
+def render_pep440(pieces: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """Build up version string, with post-release "local version identifier".
+
+    Our goal: TAG[+DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]] . Note that if you
+    get a tagged build and then dirty it, you'll get TAG+0.gHEX.dirty
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. git_describe was just HEX. 0+untagged.DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0+untagged.%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_branch(pieces: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """TAG[[.dev0]+DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means not master branch. Note that .dev0 sorts backwards
+    (a feature branch will appear "older" than the master branch).
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0[.dev0]+untagged.DISTANCE.gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0"
+        if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+untagged.%d.g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def pep440_split_post(ver: str) -> Tuple[str, Optional[int]]:
+    """Split pep440 version string at the post-release segment.
+
+    Returns the release segments before the post-release and the
+    post-release version number (or -1 if no post-release segment is present).
+    """
+    vc = str.split(ver, ".post")
+    return vc[0], int(vc[1] or 0) if len(vc) == 2 else None
+
+
+def render_pep440_pre(pieces: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """TAG[.postN.devDISTANCE] -- No -dirty.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.post0.devDISTANCE
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        if pieces["distance"]:
+            # update the post release segment
+            tag_version, post_version = pep440_split_post(pieces["closest-tag"])
+            rendered = tag_version
+            if post_version is not None:
+                rendered += ".post%d.dev%d" % (post_version + 1, pieces["distance"])
+            else:
+                rendered += ".post0.dev%d" % (pieces["distance"])
+        else:
+            # no commits, use the tag as the version
+            rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post0.dev%d" % pieces["distance"]
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_post(pieces: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means dirty. Note that .dev0 sorts backwards
+    (a dirty tree will appear "older" than the corresponding clean one),
+    but you shouldn't be releasing software with -dirty anyways.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "g%s" % pieces["short"]
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+g%s" % pieces["short"]
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_post_branch(pieces: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX[.dirty]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means not master branch.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]+gHEX[.dirty]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+            rendered += plus_or_dot(pieces)
+            rendered += "g%s" % pieces["short"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dirty"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["branch"] != "master":
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+        rendered += "+g%s" % pieces["short"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_pep440_old(pieces: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """TAG[.postDISTANCE[.dev0]] .
+
+    The ".dev0" means dirty.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. 0.postDISTANCE[.dev0]
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"] or pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+            if pieces["dirty"]:
+                rendered += ".dev0"
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = "0.post%d" % pieces["distance"]
+        if pieces["dirty"]:
+            rendered += ".dev0"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_git_describe(pieces: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """TAG[-DISTANCE-gHEX][-dirty].
+
+    Like 'git describe --tags --dirty --always'.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. HEX[-dirty]  (note: no 'g' prefix)
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        if pieces["distance"]:
+            rendered += "-%d-g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = pieces["short"]
+    if pieces["dirty"]:
+        rendered += "-dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render_git_describe_long(pieces: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """TAG-DISTANCE-gHEX[-dirty].
+
+    Like 'git describe --tags --dirty --always -long'.
+    The distance/hash is unconditional.
+
+    Exceptions:
+    1: no tags. HEX[-dirty]  (note: no 'g' prefix)
+    """
+    if pieces["closest-tag"]:
+        rendered = pieces["closest-tag"]
+        rendered += "-%d-g%s" % (pieces["distance"], pieces["short"])
+    else:
+        # exception #1
+        rendered = pieces["short"]
+    if pieces["dirty"]:
+        rendered += "-dirty"
+    return rendered
+
+
+def render(pieces: Dict[str, Any], style: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Render the given version pieces into the requested style."""
+    if pieces["error"]:
+        return {
+            "version": "unknown",
+            "full-revisionid": pieces.get("long"),
+            "dirty": None,
+            "error": pieces["error"],
+            "date": None,
+        }
+
+    if not style or style == "default":
+        style = "pep440"  # the default
+
+    if style == "pep440":
+        rendered = render_pep440(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-branch":
+        rendered = render_pep440_branch(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-pre":
+        rendered = render_pep440_pre(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-post":
+        rendered = render_pep440_post(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-post-branch":
+        rendered = render_pep440_post_branch(pieces)
+    elif style == "pep440-old":
+        rendered = render_pep440_old(pieces)
+    elif style == "git-describe":
+        rendered = render_git_describe(pieces)
+    elif style == "git-describe-long":
+        rendered = render_git_describe_long(pieces)
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("unknown style '%s'" % style)
+
+    return {
+        "version": rendered,
+        "full-revisionid": pieces["long"],
+        "dirty": pieces["dirty"],
+        "error": None,
+        "date": pieces.get("date"),
+    }
+
+
+def get_versions() -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Get version information or return default if unable to do so."""
+    # I am in _version.py, which lives at ROOT/VERSIONFILE_SOURCE. If we have
+    # __file__, we can work backwards from there to the root. Some
+    # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__, in which
+    # case we can only use expanded keywords.
+
+    cfg = get_config()
+    verbose = cfg.verbose
+
+    try:
+        return git_versions_from_keywords(get_keywords(), cfg.tag_prefix, verbose)
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    try:
+        root = os.path.realpath(__file__)
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert
+        # this to find the root from __file__.
+        for _ in cfg.versionfile_source.split("/"):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    except NameError:
+        return {
+            "version": "0+unknown",
+            "full-revisionid": None,
+            "dirty": None,
+            "error": "unable to find root of source tree",
+            "date": None,
+        }
+
+    try:
+        pieces = git_pieces_from_vcs(cfg.tag_prefix, root, verbose)
+        return render(pieces, cfg.style)
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    try:
+        if cfg.parentdir_prefix:
+            return versions_from_parentdir(cfg.parentdir_prefix, root, verbose)
+    except NotThisMethod:
+        pass
+
+    return {
+        "version": "0+unknown",
+        "full-revisionid": None,
+        "dirty": None,
+        "error": "unable to compute version",
+        "date": None,
+    }

saqc/version.py

 #!/usr/bin/env python
-
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ
-#
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
-__version__ = "2.4.1"
+from . import _version
+
+__version__ = _version.get_versions()["version"]

setup.py

 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ
-#
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-import os
 
+import versioneer
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 # read the version string from saqc without importing it. See the
 # link for a more detailed description of the problem and the solution
 # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2058802/how-can-i-get-the-version-defined-in-setup-py-setuptools-in-my-package
-with open(os.path.join("saqc", "version.py")) as f:
-    vdict = {}
-    exec(f.read(), vdict)
-    version = vdict["__version__"]
-
 with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 setup(
     name="saqc",
-    version=version,
+    version=versioneer.get_version(),
+    cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
     author="Bert Palm, David Schaefer, Florian Gransee, Peter Luenenschloss",
     author_email="david.schaefer@ufz.de",
     description="A timeseries data quality control and processing tool/framework",