versions

DrawBot and RoboFont users complain about a pop up prompting to install git when launching the latests version of the apps.

I suspect _version.py is requesting it, this feels a bit over engineered 😃

[anthrotype]

FontTools 3.3.1 is out.

[anthrotype]

No problem. TBH, I preferred the setuptools_scm method over the versioneer one, as the former doesn’t attempt to run a git subprocess at import time, but stores the computed string inside the package meta-data. The problem with it was that:

• the package metadata is not copied over by py2app/pyinstaller, etc. (wrongly so, IMO);
• developers who install-editable have to reinstall, or manually refresh the metadata using the egg_info command, every time they git pull.

For some this was a bit too much. Anyway, I’m glad we finally all agreed!