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Added automatic generation of the `__version__` attribute.

Open Sylvain Marié requested to merge github/fork/smarie/fix_issue_253 into master

Fixes #253

  • setuptools_scm was added as a setup dependency and ci dependency
  • use_scm_version (from setuptools_scm) is used instead of version to always generate the right version number based on git.
  • in addition, write_to is used in use_scm_version so that a _version.py file is automatically created when building the wheel.
  • Finally the __init__.py contains code supporting the two cases: either the _version.py file is present and it should be read, or it is not present and setuptools_scm is used programmatically to generate the version based on git information

.gitignore was modified so that the _version.py file cannot be added by mistake.

All these best practices come from https://smarie.github.io/python-getversion/#package-versioning-best-practices