From 594c8f0f6b753d322a3b9b914adc8d3555ca228b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alsmith151 <alastair.smith@ndcls.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 13:27:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore: add release-please workflow and remove setuptools_scm

- Add release-please workflow (python strategy, bumps pyproject.toml)
- Add release-please-config.json and manifest seeded at v0.3.0
- Remove setuptools_scm from build deps and pyproject.toml config
- Static version = "0.3.0" in pyproject.toml
- Switch __version__ to importlib.metadata
---
 .github/workflows/release-please.yml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 .release-please-manifest.json        |  3 +++
 plotnado/__init__.py                 |  5 +++--
 pyproject.toml                       |  9 +++------
 release-please-config.json           | 12 ++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/release-please.yml
 create mode 100644 .release-please-manifest.json
 create mode 100644 release-please-config.json

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b07ff4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: Release Please
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      release_created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
+      tag_name: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        id: release
+        with:
+          config-file: release-please-config.json
+          manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ee8c01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  ".": "0.3.0"
+}
diff --git a/plotnado/__init__.py b/plotnado/__init__.py
index cf56edc..fb9b3da 100644
--- a/plotnado/__init__.py
+++ b/plotnado/__init__.py
@@ -75,8 +75,9 @@
 )
 
 try:
-    from ._version import version as __version__
-except ImportError:
+    from importlib.metadata import version as _version
+    __version__ = _version("plotnado")
+except Exception:
     __version__ = "unknown"
 
 __all__ = [
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1abf425..f0da0c3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools >= 61.0", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"]
+requires = ["setuptools >= 61.0", "wheel"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ description = "A simple plotting library for making genomic tracks"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
 license = { text = "GPL-3.0-or-later" }
-dynamic = ["version", "dependencies"]
+version = "0.3.0"
+dynamic = ["dependencies"]
 keywords = ["genomics", "bioinformatics", "plotting", "genome-browser", "tracks"]
 classifiers = [
 	"Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
@@ -67,10 +68,6 @@ plotnado = ["data/gene_bed_files/*", "py.typed"]
 
 
 
-[tool.setuptools_scm]
-local_scheme = "no-local-version"
-write_to = "plotnado/_version.py"
-
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/alsmith151/plotnado"
 Repository = "https://github.com/alsmith151/plotnado"
diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce6c140
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+  "release-type": "python",
+  "packages": {
+    ".": {
+      "package-name": "plotnado",
+      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md",
+      "bump-minor-pre-major": true,
+      "bump-patch-for-minor-pre-major": true
+    }
+  }
+}