From 397829d1bc0c593509d93dadaca9a06c09616b54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Sutterley <tsutterl@uw.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 16:37:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] refactor: drop `setuptools-scm` dependency

---
 README.rst                       |  1 -
 doc/environment.yml              |  1 -
 doc/source/conf.py               |  3 +--
 doc/source/project/Citations.rst |  1 -
 environment.yml                  |  1 -
 pyproject.toml                   |  6 ++----
 setup.py                         | 19 -------------------
 timescale/__init__.py            |  2 +-
 timescale/version.py             |  2 +-
 version.txt                      |  1 -
 10 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 setup.py
 delete mode 100644 version.txt

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 767d107..9389b3c 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ Dependencies
 - `lxml: processing XML and HTML in Python <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml>`_
 - `numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python <https://www.numpy.org>`_
 - `scipy: Scientific Tools for Python <https://www.scipy.org/>`_
-- `setuptools_scm: manager for python package versions using scm metadata <https://pypi.org/project/setuptools-scm>`_
 
 References
 ##########
diff --git a/doc/environment.yml b/doc/environment.yml
index 96d1c98..314ee50 100644
--- a/doc/environment.yml
+++ b/doc/environment.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ dependencies:
   - python>=3.6
   - python-dateutil
   - scipy
-  - setuptools_scm
   - sphinx
   - sphinx-argparse>=0.4
   - sphinxcontrib-bibtex
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index f5748b2..8223998 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
 copyright = f"2023\u2013{year}, Tyler C. Sutterley"
 author = 'Tyler C. Sutterley'
 
-# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-# get semantic version from setuptools-scm
+# software version
 version = metadata["version"]
 # append "v" before the version
 release = f"v{version}"
diff --git a/doc/source/project/Citations.rst b/doc/source/project/Citations.rst
index 14a5e3e..c182b5c 100644
--- a/doc/source/project/Citations.rst
+++ b/doc/source/project/Citations.rst
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ This software is also dependent on other commonly used Python packages:
 - `lxml: processing XML and HTML in Python <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml>`_
 - `numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python <https://www.numpy.org>`_
 - `scipy: Scientific Tools for Python <https://www.scipy.org/>`_
-- `setuptools_scm: manager for python package versions using scm metadata <https://pypi.org/project/setuptools-scm>`_
 
 Data Citations
 ##############
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index a75de8e..a4756c3 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -8,4 +8,3 @@ dependencies:
   - python>=3.6
   - python-dateutil
   - scipy
-  - setuptools_scm
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 93e06ee..2485cc9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=64", "setuptools_scm>=8"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "timescale"
+version = "0.0.9"
 description = "Python tools for time and astronomical calculations"
 keywords = [
     "Time",
@@ -33,11 +34,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "numpy",
     "python-dateutil",
     "scipy>=1.10.1",
-    "setuptools_scm",
 ]
 
-dynamic = ["version"]
-
 classifiers=[
     "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
     "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 67fd1ae..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-from setuptools import setup
-
-# get version
-with open('version.txt', mode='r', encoding='utf8') as fh:
-    fallback_version = fh.read()
-
-# semantic version configuration for setuptools-scm
-setup_requires = ["setuptools_scm"]
-use_scm_version = {
-    "relative_to": __file__,
-    "local_scheme": "node-and-date",
-    "version_scheme": "python-simplified-semver",
-    "fallback_version":fallback_version,
-}
-
-setup(
-    name='timescale',
-    use_scm_version=use_scm_version,
-)
diff --git a/timescale/__init__.py b/timescale/__init__.py
index 0d26f5d..3fe0077 100644
--- a/timescale/__init__.py
+++ b/timescale/__init__.py
@@ -49,5 +49,5 @@ def from_list(*args, **kwargs):
     """
     return timescale.time.Timescale().from_list(*args, **kwargs)
 
-# get semantic version from setuptools-scm
+# get version information
 __version__ = timescale.version.version
diff --git a/timescale/version.py b/timescale/version.py
index 9e27d16..c4a6143 100644
--- a/timescale/version.py
+++ b/timescale/version.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 u"""
 version.py (11/2023)
-Gets semantic version number and commit hash from setuptools-scm
+Gets version number with importlib.metadata
 """
 import importlib.metadata
 
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index c5d54ec..0000000
--- a/version.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0.0.9