Name        : python-module-vcversioner    Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.14.0.0                          Vendor: ALT Linux Team
Release     : alt2.git20140715.1            Build Date: Thu Mar 17 05:21:03 2016
Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: imz-sisyphus.hasher.altlinux.org
Group       : Development/Python            Source RPM: (none)
Size        : 85102                            License: ISCL
Packager    : Eugeny A. Rostovtsev (REAL) <real at altlinux.org>
URL         : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vcversioner/
Summary     : Use version control tags to discover version numbers
Description :
Elevator pitch: you can write a setup.py with no version information
specified, and vcversioner will find a recent, properly-formatted VCS
tag and extract a version from it.

It's much more convenient to be able to use your version control
system's tagging mechanism to derive a version number than to have to
duplicate that information all over the place. I eventually ended up
copy-pasting the same code into a couple different setup.py files just
to avoid duplicating version information. But, copy-pasting is dumb and
unit testing setup.py files is hard. This code got factored out into
vcversioner.