Remove gitversion interface

ChangeLog.md

@@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ likelihood becomes the identity matrix. This is needed for the `GeoMetricKL`
 algorithm.
 
 
+Remove gitversion interface
+---------------------------
+
+Since we provide proper nifty releases on PyPI now, the gitversion interface is
+not supported any longer.
+
+
 Changes since NIFTy 5
 =====================
 

setup.py

@@ -18,21 +18,6 @@
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 import os
 
-
-def write_version():
-    import subprocess
-    try:
-        p = subprocess.Popen(["git", "describe", "--dirty", "--tags", "--always"],
-                             stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
-        res = p.communicate()[0].strip().decode('utf-8')
-    except FileNotFoundError:
-        print("Could not determine version string from git history")
-        res = "unknown"
-    with open(os.path.join("nifty7", "git_version.py"), "w") as f:
-        f.write('gitversion = "{}"\n'.format(res))
-
-
-write_version()
 exec(open('nifty7/version.py').read())
 
 with open("README.md") as f:

src/version.py

-# Store the version here so:
-# 1) we don't load dependencies by storing it in __init__.py
-# 2) we can import it in setup.py for the same reason
-# 3) we can import it into your module module
-
 __version__ = '7.0'
-
-
-def gitversion():
-    try:
-        from .git_version import gitversion
-    except ImportError:
-        return "unknown"
-    return gitversion