thoron

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Author: Douglas Creager <dcreager@dcreager.net>
# This file is placed into the public domain.

# Calculates the current version number.  If possible, this is the
# output of “git describe”, modified to conform to the versioning
# scheme that setuptools uses.  If “git describe” returns an error
# (most likely because we're in an unpacked copy of a release tarball,
# rather than in a git working copy), then we fall back on reading the
# contents of the RELEASE-VERSION file.