Version is out of sync with git tags

from fontTools.version import __version__ as ftversion
print(ftversion)

I’m sync’ed up to the latest commit and the code above will print 3.0 instead of 3.1.2. Is this expected?

Prior to a502694d1421b09d78654657089633f0e9253e1e I was getting the version this way,

from fontTools import version as ftversion
print(ftversion)

which no longer works as before. What’s the best way for a script to know what version of FontTools is installed?

[anthrotype]

the reason I made a separate version.py module is to avoid the over-head of importing pkg_resources every time one imports fontTools. Only when one really wants to know the fontTools version, one does

from fontTools.version import __version__
print(__version__)

Regular users who install from the source/wheel distributions (which are created at tagged releases) just have the plain version string, such as “3.1.2”.

Developers who install --editable from git are expected to refresh the package metadata from time to time, using python setup.py egg_info, or re-running pip install -e . (which in turn runs the egg_info command).

I hope this is clear now.

[anthrotype]

yes, the above mentioned approach would also fix that issue. I can have

from fontTools.version import __version__ as version

in the top-level fontTools.__init__, without worrying about the overhead of importing pkg_resources. I’m on it.