flit_scm

A PEP 518 build backend that uses setuptools_scm to generate a version file from your version control system, then flit_core to build the package.

To use it, set the build-system table in your pyproject.toml to as follows:

[build-system]
requires = ["flit_scm"]
build-backend = "flit_scm:buildapi"

Flit and setuptools_scm can be configured as normal (refer to their documentation). Example:

[build-system]
requires = ["flit_scm"]
build-backend = "flit_scm:buildapi"

[tool.flit.sdist]
exclude = [".gitignore"]

[tool.setuptools_scm]
write_to = "src/_version.py"