Version archives for release #1148
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This adds a VERSION file in the root containing a template that is filled out with the current version by git when a tarball is created using
git archive. It also extends the Python package builds to use that version if we're not building from a git repository.Note that git looks only for full git tags, not lightweight ones as we've been using so far. So this will require using
git tag -a vxxxx.y.zto tag releases from now on. There's an option to also take lightweight tags into account, but it seems to be broken. Anyway, for tagging releases full tags are the standard, so we might as well do that.With this merged and releases tagged appropriately, users will be able to install from a tarball, which saves download time and bandwidth and can be done with curl, which is available by default on macOS and most Linux installations and so saves an additional git installation step.