managed to load VERSION file in yaml file - simplifies things

.github/workflows/conda_python.yaml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
         run: conda config --set anaconda_upload no
 
       - name: Build
-        run: ./conda-recipes/build_conda.sh build_output python-client 
+        run: conda build ./conda-recipes/python-client --build-folder build_output 
 
       - name: Upload all Conda packages
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4

conda-recipes/build_conda.sh

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-
-SCRIPTDIR=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)
-VERSION=$(cat $SCRIPTDIR/../VERSION)
-export VERSION
-
-if [ -z "$1" ]
-then
-    output_dir=$CONDA_PREFIX/conda-bld
-else
-    output_dir=$1
-fi
-
-if [ -z "$2" ]
-then
-    recipe=$SCRIPTDIR
-else
-    recipe=$SCRIPTDIR/$2
-fi
-
-echo "building conda package version: $VERSION using recipe $recipe and writing output to $output_dir"
-
-
-conda build $recipe --output-folder $output_dir

conda-recipes/main-library/meta.yaml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-#{% set version = load_file('VERSION').strip %}
-package:
-  name: sls_detector_software
-  version: {{ environ.get('VERSION') }} #2025.3.19
-  
 source:
   path: ../..
 
+{% set version = load_file_regex(load_file = 'VERSION', regex_pattern = '(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)').group(1) %}
+package:
+  name: sls_detector_software
+  version: {{ version }} #2025.3.19
+  
 build:
   number: 0
   binary_relocation: True

conda-recipes/python-client/meta.yaml

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
+source:
+  path: ../..
+
+{% set version = load_file_regex(load_file = 'VERSION', regex_pattern = '(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)').group(1) %}
 
 package:
   name: slsdet
-  version: {{ environ.get('VERSION') }} #2025.3.19
-  
-source:
-  path: ../..
+  version: {{ version }} #
 
 build:
   number: 0
@@ -18,7 +19,6 @@ requirements:
     - {{ stdlib("c") }}
     - {{ compiler('cxx') }}
 
-
   host:
     - cmake
     - ninja

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "slsdet"
-version = "2025.3.19"
+version = "0.0.0"
 
 [tool.cibuildwheel]
 before-all = "uname -a"

update_version.py

@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ Script to update VERSION file with semantic versioning if provided as an argumen
 
 import sys
 import re
-import os
 import toml
-import yaml
-from jinja2 import Template, Undefined
 
 def get_version():
 
@@ -26,31 +23,20 @@ def get_version():
     
     return version
 
-
 def write_version_to_file(version):
     with open("VERSION", "w") as version_file:
         version_file.write(version)
     print(f"Version {version} written to VERSION file.")
 
-def define_environment_variable(version):
-    os.environ["VERSION"] = version
-
 def update_pyproject_toml_file(version):
     pyproject = toml.load("pyproject.toml")
     pyproject["project"]["version"] = version
     toml.dump(pyproject, open("pyproject.toml", "w")) #write back
     print(f"Version in pyproject.toml set to {version}")
 
-class NullUndefined(Undefined):
-  def __getattr__(self, key):
-    return ''
-
-
-
 # Main script
 if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     version = get_version()
     write_version_to_file(version)
-    define_environment_variable(version)
     update_pyproject_toml_file(version)