Possible to `pip install .`?

I see the changes in https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer/commit/7776ee06b669b85c52a1fd0f6ad9c5a6a79c3904

which imply that it is still not possible to get a version from git when running pip install .. Is this true? Is there a workaround / known solution to this issue? I guess the core of the issue is that pip doesn’t copy over the .git folder to the temporary directory, and so maybe this is simply impossible?

[Rasmnev]

I’m having this problem with both pip install . and pip install -e .

Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/home/ricardo/anaconda3/envs/forecast-off/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 363, in <module>
      main()
    File "/home/ricardo/anaconda3/envs/forecast-off/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 345, in main
      json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
    File "/home/ricardo/anaconda3/envs/forecast-off/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 130, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
      return hook(config_settings)
    File "/tmp/pip-build-env-oqexy4pi/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 162, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
      return self._get_build_requires(
    File "/tmp/pip-build-env-oqexy4pi/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 143, in _get_build_requires
      self.run_setup()
    File "/tmp/pip-build-env-oqexy4pi/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 158, in run_setup
      exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals())
    File "setup.py", line 2, in <module>
      import versioneer
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'versioneer'
  ----------------------------------------
WARNING: Discarding file:///home/Forecast-Off/new_repo/forecast-off-trade. Command errored out with exit status 1: /home/ricardo/anaconda3/envs/forecast-off/bin/python /home/ricardo/anaconda3/envs/forecast-off/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmp0q02sf1v Check the logs for full command output.
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /home/ricardo/anaconda3/envs/forecast-off/bin/python /home/ricardo/anaconda3/envs/forecast-off/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmp0q02sf1v Check the logs for full command output.

[effigies]

This should be fixed.

For vendored builds, using build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__" should work, or adding sys.path.append(".") in your setup.py. For non-vendored builds, adding versioneer >= 0.24 to your requires list should work.