Unified place for the version number

added --version to bigchain-cli

bigchaindb/commands/utils.py

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ for ``argparse.ArgumentParser``.
 import argparse
 import multiprocessing as mp
 
+from bigchaindb.version import __version__
+
 
 def start(parser, scope):
     """Utility function to execute a subcommand.
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ def start(parser, scope):
     func(args)
 
 
-base_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
+base_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False, prog='bigchaindb')
 
 base_parser.add_argument('-c', '--config',
                          help='Specify the location of the configuration file')
@@ -55,3 +57,7 @@ base_parser.add_argument('-y', '--yes', '--yes-please',
                          action='store_true',
                          help='Assume "yes" as answer to all prompts and run '
                               'non-interactively')
+
+base_parser.add_argument('-v', '--version',
+                         action='version',
+                         version='%(prog)s {}'.format(__version__))

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ from recommonmark.parser import CommonMarkParser
 # ones.
 import sphinx_rtd_theme
 
+# get version
+_version = {}
+with open('../../bigchaindb/version.py') as fp:
+    exec(fp.read(), _version)
+
 
 extensions = [
     'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
@@ -71,7 +76,7 @@ author = 'BigchainDB Contributors'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '0.1'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.1.4'
+release = _version['__version__']
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.

setup.py

@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@ BigchainDB: A Scalable Blockchain Database
 For full docs visit https://bigchaindb.readthedocs.org
 
 """
+import os, sys
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
+# get the version
+version = {}
+with open('bigchaindb/version.py') as fp:
+    exec(fp.read(), version)
+
 tests_require = [
     'pytest',
     'coverage',
@@ -32,7 +38,7 @@ docs_require = [
 
 setup(
     name='BigchainDB',
-    version='0.1.4',
+    version=version['__version__'],
     description='BigchainDB: A Scalable Blockchain Database',
     long_description=__doc__,
     url='https://github.com/BigchainDB/bigchaindb/',