dervive version from scm rather than file

Author: danabens

VERSION

@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
 # language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 
 from datetime import datetime
-import pkg_resources
 import os
 import sys
+from pkg_resources import get_distribution
 
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(".."))
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 project = "sagemaker-experiments"
 copyright = u"%s, Amazon" % datetime.now().year
 author = "Amazon Web Services"
-version = pkg_resources.require(project)[0].version
+version = get_distribution(project).version
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
 

docs/conf.py

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+  "setuptools",
+  "setuptools-scm",
+  "wheel",
+]
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]

pyproject.toml

@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ def read(fname):
     return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
 
 
-def read_version():
-    return read("VERSION").strip()
-
-
 # Declare minimal set for installation
 required_packages = ["boto3>=1.10.32"]
 
@@ -39,7 +35,7 @@ def read_version():
 
 setup(
     name="sagemaker-experiments",
-    version=read_version(),
+    use_scm_version=True,
     description="Open source library for Experiment Tracking in SageMaker Jobs and Notebooks",
     packages=find_packages("src"),
     package_dir={"": "src"},
@@ -60,6 +56,7 @@ def read_version():
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
     ],
+    setup_requires=["setuptools_scm", "setuptools"],
     install_requires=required_packages,
     extras_require={
         "test": [