Simplified the version handling further, compressor.__version__ is now the canonical location following well defined Python best practices.

LICENSE

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 django_compressor
 -----------------
-Copyright (c) 2009-2011 django_compressor authors (see AUTHORS file)
+Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Django Compressor authors (see AUTHORS file)
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

compressor/__init__.py

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# following PEP 386, versiontools will pick it up
-__version__ = (1, 1, 2, "post", 1)
+# following PEP 386
+__version__ = "1.2a1"

docs/changelog.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-v1.2.0 (in development)
------------------------
+v1.2 (in development)
+---------------------
 
 - Introduced a new ``compressed`` context dictionary that is passed to
   the templates that are responsible for rendering the compressed snippets.

docs/conf.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import sys, os
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
-# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('..'))
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('..'))
 
 # -- General configuration -----------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -47,10 +47,14 @@ copyright = u'2012, Django Compressor authors'
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 #
-# The short X.Y version.
-version = '1.1'
-# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.1.2'
+try:
+    from compressor import __version__
+    # The short X.Y version.
+    version = '.'.join(__version__.split('.')[:2])
+    # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+    release = __version__
+except ImportError:
+    version = release = 'dev'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.

setup.py

@@ -1,12 +1,24 @@
 import os
+import re
 import sys
 import codecs
 from fnmatch import fnmatchcase
 from distutils.util import convert_path
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-def read(fname):
-    return codecs.open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
+
+def read(*parts):
+    return codecs.open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *parts)).read()
+
+
+def find_version(*file_paths):
+    version_file = read(*file_paths)
+    version_match = re.search(r"^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]",
+                              version_file, re.M)
+    if version_match:
+        return version_match.group(1)
+    raise RuntimeError("Unable to find version string.")
+
 
 # Provided as an attribute, so you can append to these instead
 # of replicating them:
@@ -14,6 +26,7 @@ standard_exclude = ('*.py', '*.pyc', '*$py.class', '*~', '.*', '*.bak')
 standard_exclude_directories = ('.*', 'CVS', '_darcs', './build',
                                 './dist', 'EGG-INFO', '*.egg-info')
 
+
 # (c) 2005 Ian Bicking and contributors; written for Paste (http://pythonpaste.org)
 # Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 # Note: you may want to copy this into your setup.py file verbatim, as
@@ -98,17 +111,17 @@ def find_package_data(
     return out
 
 setup(
-    name = "django_compressor",
-    version = "1.1.2.post1",
-    url = 'http://django_compressor.readthedocs.org/',
-    license = 'MIT',
-    description = "Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into single cached files.",
-    long_description = read('README.rst'),
-    author = 'Jannis Leidel',
-    author_email = 'jannis@leidel.info',
-    packages = find_packages(),
-    package_data = find_package_data(),
-    classifiers = [
+    name="django_compressor",
+    version=find_version("compressor", "__init__.py"),
+    url='http://django_compressor.readthedocs.org/',
+    license='MIT',
+    description="Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into single cached files.",
+    long_description=read('README.rst'),
+    author='Jannis Leidel',
+    author_email='jannis@leidel.info',
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    package_data=find_package_data(),
+    classifiers=[
         'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
         'Framework :: Django',
         'Intended Audience :: Developers',
@@ -120,8 +133,8 @@ setup(
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
         'Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP',
     ],
-    zip_safe = False,
-    install_requires = [
+    zip_safe=False,
+    install_requires=[
         'django-appconf >= 0.4',
     ],
 )