--version points to git hash and date

pyproject.toml

@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ readme = "README.md"
 license = {file = "LICENSE"}
 keywords = ["ramalama", "llama", "AI"]
 
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools_scm"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/containers/ramalama"
 Documentation = "https://github.com/containers/ramalama/tree/main/docs"

ramalama/version.py

@@ -1,16 +1,9 @@
-import importlib.metadata
-
-"""Version of RamaLamaPy."""
-
+import setuptools_scm
 
 def version():
-    try:
-        return importlib.metadata.version("ramalama")
-    except importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
-        return "0"
-
-    return "0"
-
+    """Returns the package version dynamically from Git."""
+    return setuptools_scm.get_version()
 
-def print_version(args):
-    print("ramalama version %s" % version())
+def print_version(args=None):
+    """Prints the current version of the package."""
+    print(f"ramalama version {version()}")

setup.py

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def find_package_modules(self, package, package_dir):
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="ramalama",
-    version="0.5.5",
+    use_scm_version=True,
     packages=find_packages(),
     cmdclass={"build_py": build_py},
     scripts=["bin/ramalama"],