Support for setuptools_scm?

[pmeier]

I'm not sure how maturin builds the Python side of the project, so maybe this request makes no sense. If you are using setuptools would it be possible to add support for setuptools_scm? With that you don't have to manage the version manually. It is rather inferred from your SCM like git. Basically I want to use a dummy version in Cargo.toml.

If I use build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta" and have setuptools_scm is part of the build system requirements, it gets picked up automatically. However, using build-backend = "maturin" it is ignored.

[konstin]

For rust projects the workflows are different than with setuptools, i'd recommend checking out e.g. https://github.com/crate-ci/cargo-release

[messense]

setuptools_scm is designed for setuptools and relies on extension APIs of setuptools, maturin as a pep517 build backend doesn't even use setuptools so it can't support setuptools_scm.