apply the pyproject packaging layout

.github/workflows/Test.yml

@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ jobs:
   call_workflow:
     uses: ./.github/workflows/Testbase.yml
     with:
-      python: '3.10'
+      python: '3.11'
       qt5: 'pyqt5'

.github/workflows/Testbase.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS: 1
     steps:
       - name: Set up Python ${{ inputs.python }}
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Install dependencies
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1
           pip install flake8 pytest pytest-cov pytest-qt pytest-xdist pytest-xvfb setuptools wheel numpy h5py ${{ inputs.qt5 }} toml
-          pip install pymodaq
+          pip install pymodaq pyqt5
           pip install -e .
       - name: create local pymodaq folder and setting permissions
         run: |

.github/workflows/python-publish.yml

@@ -17,22 +17,24 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: '3.11'
+        python-version: '3.x'
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install setuptools wheel twine toml "pymodaq>=4.1.0" pyqt5
-
-    - name: create local pymodaq folder and setting permissions
+        pip install hatch hatchling toml twine
+    - name: Get history and tags for SCM versioning to work
       run: |
-        sudo mkdir /etc/.pymodaq
-        sudo chmod uo+rw /etc/.pymodaq
-
-    - name: Build and publish
+        git branch
+        git fetch --prune --unshallow
+        git fetch --depth=1 origin +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
+        hatch version
+    - name: Build
+      run: hatch build
+    - name: Check the build
+      run: twine check dist/*
+    - name: publish
       env:
-        TWINE_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.PYPI_USERNAME }}
-        TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD }}
+        HATCH_INDEX_USER: ${{ secrets.PYPI_USERNAME }}
+        HATCH_INDEX_AUTH: ${{ secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD }}
       run: |
-        python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
-        twine check dist/*
-        twine upload dist/*
+        hatch publish

.github/workflows/updater.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: GitHub Actions Version Updater
+
+# Controls when the action will run.
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Automatically run at 00:00 on day-of-month 5.
+    - cron:  '0 0 5 * *'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # [Required] Access token with `workflow` scope.
+          token: ${{ secrets.WORKFLOW_SECRET }}
+
+      - name: Run GitHub Actions Version Updater
+        uses: saadmk11/github-actions-version-updater@v0.8.1
+        with:
+          # [Required] Access token with `workflow` scope.
+          token: ${{ secrets.WORKFLOW_SECRET }}

hatch_build.py

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+from pathlib import Path
+from hatchling.metadata.plugin.interface import MetadataHookInterface
+from pymodaq_utils.resources.hatch_build_plugins import update_metadata_from_toml
+
+here = Path(__file__).absolute().parent
+
+
+class PluginInfoTomlHook(MetadataHookInterface):
+    def update(self, metadata: dict) -> None:
+        update_metadata_from_toml(metadata, here)

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+[features]  # defines the plugin features contained into this plugin
+instruments = true  # true if plugin contains instrument classes (else false, notice the lowercase for toml files)
+extensions = false  # true if plugins contains dashboard extensions
+models = false  # true if plugins contains pid models
+h5exporters = false  # true if plugin contains custom h5 file exporters
+scanners = false  # true if plugin contains custom scan layout (daq_scan extensions)
+
+[urls]
+package-url = 'https://github.com/PyMoDAQ/pymodaq_plugins_basler'
+
+[project]
+name = "pymodaq_plugins_basler"
+description = 'PyMoDAQ plugins for cameras of Basler'
+dependencies = [
+    'pymodaq>=4.4.7',
+    'numpy',  # for Basler camera
+    'pypylon',
+]
+
+authors = [
+    {name = 'Benedikt Burger', email = "Benedikt.Burger@physik.tu-darmstadt.de"},
+    {name = 'Romain GeneauX', email = "romain.geneaux@cea.fr"},
+]
+maintainers = [
+    {name = 'Romain GeneauX', email = "romain.geneaux@cea.fr"},
+]
+
+# nottodo: leave everything below as is!
+
+dynamic = ["version", "urls", "entry-points"]
+readme = "README.rst"
+license = { file="LICENSE" }
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+    "Natural Language :: English",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Human Machine Interfaces",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: User Interfaces",
+]
+
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "hatchling>=1.9.0",
+    "hatch-vcs", "toml",
+    "pymodaq_utils>=0.0.6",
+]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
+
+[tool.hatch.metadata.hooks.custom]
+
+[tool.hatch.version]
+source = "vcs"
+

src/pymodaq_plugins_basler/__init__.py

@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from pymodaq.utils.logger import set_logger  # to be imported by other modules.
 
+
+from importlib import metadata
+from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError
+
+
 from .utils import Config
 config = Config()
 
-with open(str(Path(__file__).parent.joinpath('resources/VERSION')), 'r') as fvers:
-    __version__ = fvers.read().strip()
+try:
+    __version__ = metadata.version(__package__)
+except PackageNotFoundError:
+    __version__ = '0.0.0dev'