ARROW-379: Use setuptools_scm for Python versioning

Change-Id: I5e2c8e332b689fd75b6d1880f9b152f08b0655eb

dev/release/00-prepare.sh

@@ -43,9 +43,4 @@ mvn release:prepare -Dtag=${tag} -DreleaseVersion=${version} -DautoVersionSubmod
 
 cd -
 
-cd "${SOURCE_DIR}/../../python"
-sed -i "s/VERSION = '[^']*'/VERSION = '${version}'/g" setup.py
-sed -i "s/ISRELEASED = False/ISRELEASED = True/g" setup.py
-cd -
-
 echo "Finish staging binary artifacts by running: sh dev/release/01-perform.sh"

python/.git_archival.txt

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ref-names: $Format:%D$

python/.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.git_archival.txt  export-subst

python/pyarrow/__init__.py

@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@
 
 # flake8: noqa
 
+from pkg_resources import get_distribution, DistributionNotFound
+try:
+    __version__ = get_distribution(__name__).version
+except DistributionNotFound:
+   # package is not installed
+   pass
+
+
 import pyarrow.config
 
 from pyarrow.array import (Array,

python/setup.cfg

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[build_sphinx]
+source-dir = doc/
+build-dir  = doc/_build

python/setup.py

@@ -42,27 +42,9 @@ is_64_bit = sys.maxsize > 2**32
 if Cython.__version__ < '0.19.1':
     raise Exception('Please upgrade to Cython 0.19.1 or newer')
 
-VERSION = '0.1.0'
-ISRELEASED = False
-
-if not ISRELEASED:
-    VERSION += '.dev'
-
 setup_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 
 
-def write_version_py(filename=os.path.join(setup_dir, 'pyarrow/version.py')):
-    a = open(filename, 'w')
-    file_content = "\n".join(["",
-                              "# THIS FILE IS GENERATED FROM SETUP.PY",
-                              "version = '%(version)s'",
-                              "isrelease = '%(isrelease)s'"])
-
-    a.write(file_content % {'version': VERSION,
-                            'isrelease': str(ISRELEASED)})
-    a.close()
-
-
 class clean(_clean):
 
     def run(self):
@@ -261,15 +243,12 @@ class build_ext(_build_ext):
         return [self._get_cmake_ext_path(name)
                 for name in self.get_names()]
 
-write_version_py()
-
 DESC = """\
 Python library for Apache Arrow"""
 
 setup(
     name="pyarrow",
     packages=['pyarrow', 'pyarrow.tests'],
-    version=VERSION,
     zip_safe=False,
     package_data={'pyarrow': ['*.pxd', '*.pyx']},
     # Dummy extension to trigger build_ext
@@ -279,6 +258,8 @@ setup(
         'clean': clean,
         'build_ext': build_ext
     },
+    use_scm_version = {"root": "..", "relative_to": __file__},
+    setup_requires=['setuptools_scm', 'setuptools_scm_git_archive'],
     install_requires=['cython >= 0.23', 'numpy >= 1.9', 'six >= 1.0.0'],
     description=DESC,
     license='Apache License, Version 2.0',