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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/5676#issuecomment-893459440,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5676,893459440,IC_kwDOAMm_X841QRvw,4160723,2021-08-05T13:27:09Z,2021-08-05T13:29:11Z,MEMBER,"> There are better approaches to set the version number than to use this heavy weight module. For instance setuptools_scm.

Looks like it is still required to [retrieve the version number at runtime](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm#retrieving-package-version-at-runtime) for python versions < 3.8, unless we agree to temporarily depend on the [importlib_metada](https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata/) backport.

> As far as I could see, the module is used to set the version number of xarray

It is also used for the backend entry-points and for loading a couple of static css/html files for the html reprs. I don't know if there are better approaches for this, though.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,961780560