incremental CLI script

README.rst

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Theory of Operation
 - A version number has the form YY.MM.PATCH.
 - If your project is named "Shrubbery", its code is found in ``shrubbery/`` or ``src/shrubbery/``.
 - Incremental stores your project's version number in ``{src/}shrubbery/_version.py``.
-- To update the version, run ``python -m incremental.update Shrubbery``, passing ``--rc`` and/or ``--patch`` as appropriate (see `Updating`_, below).
+- To update the version, run ``incremental update Shrubbery``, passing ``--rc`` and/or ``--patch`` as appropriate (see `Updating`_, below).
 - Changing the version also updates any `indeterminate versions`_ in your codebase, like "Shrubbery NEXT", so you can reference the upcoming release in documentation.
   That's how Incremental supports the future.
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ activate Incremental's Hatchling plugin by altering your ``pyproject.toml``:
 Incremental can be configured as usual in an optional ``[tool.incremental]`` table.
 
 The ``hatch version`` command will report the Incremental-managed version.
-Use the ``python -m incremental.update`` command to change the version (setting it with ``hatch version`` is not supported).
+Use the ``incremental update`` command to change the version (setting it with ``hatch version`` is not supported).
 
 Next, `initialize the project`_.
 
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ Then `initialize the project`_.
 Initialize the project
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Install Incremental to your local environment with ``pip install incremental[scripts]``.
-Then run ``python -m incremental.update <projectname> --create``.
+Install Incremental to your local environment with ``pipx install incremental``.
+Then run ``incremental update <projectname> --create``.
 It will create a file in your package named ``_version.py`` like this:
 
 .. code:: python
@@ -124,15 +124,26 @@ It will create a file in your package named ``_version.py`` like this:
    __all__ = ["__version__"]
 
 
-Then, so users of your project can find your version, in your root package's ``__init__.py`` add:
+Subsequent installations of your project will then use Incremental for versioning.
+
+
+Runtime integration
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+You may expose the ``incremental.Version`` from ``_version.py`` in your package's API.
+To do so, add to your root package's ``__init__.py``:
 
 .. code:: python
 
    from ._version import __version__
 
+.. note::
 
-Subsequent installations of your project will then use Incremental for versioning.
+    Providing a ``__version__`` attribute is falling out of fashion following the introduction of `importlib.metadata.version() <https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#distribution-versions>`_ in Python 3.6, which can retrieve an installed package's version.
 
+If you don't expose this object publicly, nor make use of it within your package,
+then there is no need to depend on Incremental at runtime.
+You can remove it from your project's ``dependencies`` array (or, in ``setup.py``, from ``install_requires``).
 
 
 Incremental Versions
@@ -155,12 +166,12 @@ Calling ``repr()`` with a ``Version`` will give a Python-source-code representat
 Updating
 --------
 
-Incremental includes a tool to automate updating your Incremental-using project's version called ``incremental.update``.
+Incremental includes a tool to automate updating your Incremental-using project's version called ``incremental``.
 It updates the ``_version.py`` file and automatically updates some uses of Incremental versions from an indeterminate version to the current one.
 It requires ``click`` from PyPI.
 
-``python -m incremental.update <projectname>`` will perform updates on that package.
-The commands that can be given after that will determine what the next version is.
+``incremental update <projectname>`` will perform updates on that package.
+The commands that can be given after that determine what the next version is.
 
 - ``--newversion=<version>``, to set the project version to a fully-specified version (like 1.2.3, or 17.1.0dev1).
 - ``--rc``, to set the project version to ``<year-2000>.<month>.0rc1`` if the current version is not a release candidate, or bump the release candidate number by 1 if it is.
@@ -178,7 +189,7 @@ Incremental supports "indeterminate" versions, as a stand-in for the next "full"
 - ``Version("<projectname>", "NEXT", 0, 0)``
 - ``<projectname> NEXT``
 
-When you run ``python -m incremental.update <projectname> --rc``, these will be updated to real versions (assuming the target final version is 17.1.0):
+When you run ``incremental update <projectname> --rc``, these will be updated to real versions (assuming the target final version is 17.1.0):
 
 - ``Version("<projectname>", 17, 1, 0, release_candidate=1)``
 - ``<projectname> 17.1.0rc1``

pyproject.toml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 scripts = [
-    "click>=6.0",
+    # This extra remains for backwards compatibility.
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ Documentation = "https://twisted.org/incremental/docs/"
 Issues = "https://github.com/twisted/incremental/issues"
 Changelog = "https://github.com/twisted/incremental/blob/trunk/NEWS.rst"
 
+[project.scripts]
+incremental = "incremental.update:_main"
+
 [project.entry-points."distutils.setup_keywords"]
 use_incremental = "incremental:_get_distutils_version"
 [project.entry-points."setuptools.finalize_distribution_options"]

src/incremental/_hatch.py

@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@ def get_version_data(self) -> _VersionData:  # type: ignore[override]
         return {"version": _existing_version(config.version_path).public()}
 
     def set_version(self, version: str, version_data: Dict[Any, Any]) -> None:
+        path = os.path.join(self.root, "./pyproject.toml")  # TODO: #111 Delete this.
+        config = _load_pyproject_toml(path)
         raise NotImplementedError(
-            f"Run `python -m incremental.version --newversion"
+            f"Run `incremental update {shlex.quote(config.package)} --newversion"
             f" {shlex.quote(version)}` to set the version.\n\n"
-            f" See `python -m incremental.version --help` for more options."
+            f" See `incremental --help` for more options."
         )
 
 

src/incremental/newsfragments/99.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Incremental now provides a CLI script, ``incremental``, allowing you to run it with ``pipx run incremental``.
+The ``incremental update`` subcommand offers the same functionality as ``python -m incremental.update``.

src/incremental/newsfragments/99.removal.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Incremental's CLI no longer depends on Click, so you no longer need to install ``incremental[scripts]`` for it to function.
+The ``scripts`` extra is deprecated.