Add an extra podio_version.py file (#521)

Co-authored-by: jmcarcell <[email protected]>
AIDASoft · Dec 4, 2023 · e0bffc8 · e0bffc8
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diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -172,6 +172,11 @@ install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include/podio/podioVersion.h
         DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}/podio )
 configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/python/__version__.py.in
                ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/python/podio/__version__.py)
+# Quality of life improvement to be able to use podio-dump --help
+# without having to import ROOT
+configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/python/__version__.py.in
+               ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/python/podio_version.py)
+
 
 #--- add license files ---------------------------------------------------------
 install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/NOTICE

diff --git a/python/CMakeLists.txt b/python/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ else()
     )
 endif()
 
+# Quality of life improvement to be able to use podio-dump --help
+# without having to import ROOT
+install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/podio_version.py
+  DESTINATION ${podio_PYTHON_INSTALLDIR}
+)
+
 install(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/podio_gen
   DESTINATION ${podio_PYTHON_INSTALLDIR}
   REGEX test_.*\\.py$ EXCLUDE  # Do not install test files

diff --git a/tools/podio-dump b/tools/podio-dump
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import yaml
 
 from tabulate import tabulate
 
-from podio import __version__
+from podio_version import __version__
 
 
 def print_general_info(reader, filename):