automated versioning (#175)

Co-authored-by: mazzol_a <mazzol_a@pc17378.psi.ch>
Co-authored-by: Erik Fröjdh <erik.frojdh@psi.ch>

update_version.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-other
+# Copyright (C) 2021 Contributors to the Aare Package
+"""
+Script to update VERSION file with semantic versioning if provided as an argument, or with 0.0.0 if no argument is provided.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import os
+import re
+
+from packaging.version import Version, InvalidVersion
+
+
+SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+
+def is_integer(value): 
+    try:
+        int(value)
+    except ValueError:
+        return False
+    else:
+        return True
+
+
+def get_version():
+
+    # Check at least one argument is passed
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        return "0.0.0"
+
+    version = sys.argv[1]
+
+    try:
+        v = Version(version)  # normalize check if version follows PEP 440 specification
+        
+        version_normalized = version.replace("-", ".")
+
+        version_normalized =  re.sub(r'0*(\d+)', lambda m : str(int(m.group(0))), version_normalized) #remove leading zeros 
+
+        return version_normalized 
+
+    except InvalidVersion as e:
+        print(f"Invalid version {version}. Version format must follow semantic versioning format of python PEP 440 version identification specification.")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    
+
+def write_version_to_file(version):
+    version_file_path = os.path.join(SCRIPT_DIR, "VERSION")
+    with open(version_file_path, "w") as version_file:
+        version_file.write(version)
+    print(f"Version {version} written to VERSION file.")
+
+# Main script
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    version = get_version()
+    write_version_to_file(version)