From 9543b90bc3d8c43be7a7bc6bcad81429a783d099 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Russo <lerwys@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:49:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] leep/__init.py__: expose __version__ to users

---
 leep/__init__.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/leep/__init__.py b/leep/__init__.py
index 188c657..e63794d 100644
--- a/leep/__init__.py
+++ b/leep/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 
 from .base import open, IGNORE, WARN, ERROR, RomError
+from .__version__ import __version__
 
 __all__ = [
     'open',
@@ -7,4 +8,5 @@
     'WARN',
     'ERROR',
     'RomError',
+    '__version__'
 ]

From 8338cced609ffed13238f9f5533c88c9de2ccb6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Russo <lerwys@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:06:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] leep: use metadata package to extract version

---
 leep/__init__.py |  6 +++++-
 leep/_version.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 leep/_version.py

diff --git a/leep/__init__.py b/leep/__init__.py
index e63794d..acd2286 100644
--- a/leep/__init__.py
+++ b/leep/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
 
 from .base import open, IGNORE, WARN, ERROR, RomError
-from .__version__ import __version__
+from ._version import __version__ as _version
 
 __all__ = [
+    '__version__',
     'open',
     'IGNORE',
     'WARN',
@@ -10,3 +12,5 @@
     'RomError',
     '__version__'
 ]
+
+__version__: str = _version
diff --git a/leep/_version.py b/leep/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28e4893
--- /dev/null
+++ b/leep/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+try:
+    import importlib.metadata as metadata
+except ImportError:
+    # Fallback for Python < 3.8
+    import importlib_metadata as metadata
+
+__all__ = ("__version__",)
+
+try:
+    __version__ = metadata.version("leep")
+except metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+    __version__ = "0.0.0"

From 7d952da285a6d2ff7459f48f74c30d91add6ca53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Russo <lerwys@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:06:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] pyproject.toml: fix generating version file

This is now dynamically read via importlib.metadata
package
---
 pyproject.toml | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index aff73be..79bab37 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,4 +31,3 @@ Issues = "https://gitlab.lbl.gov/drivers/leep/issues"
 leep = "leep.cli:main"
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
-version_file = "leep/__version__.py"

From f4083db6a3da435280ca11bca7f55588436130e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Russo <lerwys@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:07:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] .gitignore: remove unused __version__.py ignore

---
 .gitignore | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9894e7e..f6f2d63 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,3 @@
 *.local
 dist/
 leep.egg-info/
-*__version__.py