Final touches for allowing a conda build

.github/workflows/cibuildwheels.yml

@@ -43,10 +43,6 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          # Fetch all history for all branches and tags
-          # (important for guessing the correct version with setuptools_scm)
-          fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
@@ -91,10 +87,6 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          # Fetch all history for all branches and tags
-          # (important for guessing the correct version with setuptools_scm)
-          fetch-depth: 0
 
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}

RELEASING.rst

@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ python-blosc2 release procedure
 Preliminaries
 -------------
 
-* Do not worry about the version number.  setuptools_scm in scikit-build-core has machinery
-  to figure it out based on git tags:
-  https://scikit-build-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html#dynamic-metadata
+* Set the version number in ``pyproject.toml`` to the new version number (e.g. ``X.Y.Z``).
 
 * Make sure that the c-blosc2 repository is updated to the latest version (or a specific
   version that will be documented in the ``RELEASE_NOTES.md``). In ``CMakeLists.txt`` edit::
@@ -111,6 +109,9 @@ Post-release actions
 
     XXX version-specific blurb XXX
 
+* Update the version number in ``pyproject.toml`` to the next version number
+  (e.g. ``X.Y.(Z+1).dev``).
+
 * Commit your changes with::
 
     git commit -a -m "Post X.Y.Z release actions done"

generate_version.py

@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
-# generate_version.py
-
 import tomllib as toml
 
-# Read the pyproject.toml file
 with open("pyproject.toml", "rb") as f:
     pyproject = toml.load(f)
 
-# Extract the version
 version = pyproject["project"]["version"]
 
-# Write the version to blosc2/_version.py
 with open("src/blosc2/version.py", "w") as f:
     f.write(f'__version__ = "{version}"\n')

pyproject.toml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "blosc2"
-description = "A flexible computational engine for the fast Blosc2 compression library"
+description = "A high-performance compressed ndarray library with a flexible computational engine"
 readme = {file = "README.rst", content-type = "text/x-rst"}
 authors = [{name = "Blosc Development Team", email = "[email protected]"}]
 maintainers = [{ name = "Blosc Development Team", email = "[email protected]"}]