Add proper (git-based) versioning.

.gitignore

@@ -15,3 +15,9 @@ tests-sqlalchemy/verifier/LotsOfDataTypes.asn
 tests-sqlalchemy/verifier/asn2dataModel/
 .mypy_cache
 env
+aclocal.m4
+autom4te.cache/
+config.log
+config.status
+setup.py
+dmt/commonPy/__init__.py

Makefile

@@ -8,7 +8,16 @@ PY_SRC:=$(filter-out dmt/B_mappers/antlr.main.py dmt/A_mappers/Stubs.py, ${PY_SR
 TYPING_FOLDER:=$(shell pip3 show typing 2>/dev/null | grep ^Location | sed 's,^.*: ,,')
 export PYTHONPATH=${TYPING_FOLDER}
 
-all:	flake8 pylint mypy coverage testDB
+all:	tests
+
+tests:	flake8 pylint mypy coverage testDB
+
+configure:
+	./configure
+
+install:	configure
+	pip3 uninstall -y dmt || exit 0  # Uninstall if there, but don't abort if not installed
+	pip3 install --user .
 
 flake8:
 	@echo Performing syntax checks via flake8...
@@ -32,4 +41,4 @@ testDB:
 	@echo Performing database tests...
 	@$(MAKE) -C tests-sqlalchemy  || exit 1
 
-.PHONY:	flake8 pylint mypy coverage
+.PHONY:	flake8 pylint mypy coverage install configure

ac-macros/revision_utils.m4

+# Automake macro to set the revision utils
+
+# Usage: AM_REVISION_UTILS([directory_name]).
+# Directory name must be a litteral string and not the result of a
+# command.
+
+AC_DEFUN([AM_REVISION_UTILS],
+[
+# Take the current SVN revision
+
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether this is a SCM working copy)
+
+temp_scm_output=`(cd $srcdir; git rev-parse --short HEAD)`
+
+if test x"${temp_scm_output}" = x""; then
+   # This means we are NOT working on a repository copy, the value of
+   # SCM_REVISION will not be taken into account.
+
+   SCM_REVISION=""
+   AC_MSG_RESULT(no.)
+else
+   SCM_REVISION="r${temp_scm_output}"
+   AC_MSG_RESULT(yes: ${SCM_REVISION}.)
+fi
+
+AC_SUBST(SCM_REVISION)
+
+# Take the configure full date
+
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(the configuration full date)
+
+temp_config_date=`LANG=C date +"%A %d %B %Y, %H:%M:%S"`
+
+if test x"${temp_config_date}" = x""; then
+   LAST_CONFIG_DATE=""
+   AC_MSG_RESULT(empty date.)
+else
+   LAST_CONFIG_DATE="${temp_config_date}"
+   AC_MSG_RESULT(${LAST_CONFIG_DATE}.)
+fi
+
+AC_SUBST(LAST_CONFIG_DATE)
+
+# Take the configure year
+
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(the configuration year)
+
+temp_config_year=`LANG=C date +"%Y"`
+
+if test x"${temp_config_year}" = x""; then
+   LAST_CONFIG_YEAR="2007"
+   AC_MSG_RESULT(no year found, fall into default: ${LAST_CONFIG_YEAR}.)
+else
+   LAST_CONFIG_YEAR="${temp_config_year}"
+   AC_MSG_RESULT(${LAST_CONFIG_YEAR})
+fi
+
+AC_SUBST(LAST_CONFIG_YEAR)
+])

acinclude.m4

+m4_include([ac-macros/revision_utils.m4])

configure.ac

+AC_INIT([DMT], [2.2], [Thanassis.Tsiodras@esa.int])
+
+AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([ac-macros])
+
+AM_REVISION_UTILS
+
+# Finally create all the generated files
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([setup.py dmt/commonPy/__init__.py])
+AC_OUTPUT

dmt/commonPy/__init__.py → dmt/commonPy/__init__.py.in

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import pkg_resources  # pragma: no cover
 try:
     __version__ = pkg_resources.require("dmt")[0].version  # pragma: no cover
 except:
-    __version__ = "2.1.3"
+    __version__ = "2.2-@SCM_REVISION@"
 
 
 def print_version() -> None:

setup.py → setup.py.in

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(
     name='dmt',
-    version="2.1.48",
+    version="2.2-@SCM_REVISION@",
     packages=find_packages(),
     author='Thanassis Tsiodras',
     author_email='Thanassis.Tsiodras@esa.int',