From c90c6b2ef66061df1b020b9a50887e8a3b491ee4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emil <emil28092005@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 04:14:23 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Derive the package version from git tags via setuptools_scm

---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 16 ++++++----------
 pyproject.toml                |  6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 64100d5..2fcf2a0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -57,24 +57,20 @@ jobs:
   wheel:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
+      # Full history: setuptools_scm derives the package version from the
+      # release tag (v1.1.0-alpha.16 -> 1.1.0a16), so the wheel is
+      # version-locked to the binaries of the same release.
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: "3.12"
 
       - name: build the scimesh wheel
-        env:
-          VERSION: ${{ github.ref_name }}
         run: |
-          # The tag (v1.1.0-alpha.10) becomes the package version in its
-          # PEP 440 form (1.1.0a10); the wheel is then version-locked to the
-          # binaries of the same release.
-          WHEEL_VERSION="${VERSION#v}"
-          WHEEL_VERSION="${WHEEL_VERSION/-alpha./a}"
-          WHEEL_VERSION="${WHEEL_VERSION/-beta./b}"
-          WHEEL_VERSION="${WHEEL_VERSION/-rc./rc}"
-          sed -i "s/^version = .*/version = \"${WHEEL_VERSION}\"/" pyproject.toml
           python -m pip install --quiet build
           python -m build --wheel --outdir dist
           ls -la dist/
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 330eaa4..7cbe3d7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=68"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=68", "setuptools-scm>=8"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "scimesh"
-version = "0.1.0"
+dynamic = ["version"]
 description = "Local scientific workloads for molecular similarity analysis"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
@@ -40,3 +40,5 @@ venv = ".venv"
 pythonVersion = "3.10"
 typeCheckingMode = "basic"
 exclude = ["SciMesh", "site", "coordinator"]
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]