cookiecutter template to use import metadata to retrieve the version

Author: richarddushime

{{cookiecutter.package_name}}/docs/requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+-e .
 linkify-it-py
 myst-parser
 nbsphinx

{{cookiecutter.package_name}}/docs/source/conf.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import os
 import sys
 
-import setuptools_scm
+from importlib.metadata import version as get_version
 
 # Used when building API docs, put the dependencies
 # of any class you are documenting here
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
 copyright = "2022, {{cookiecutter.full_name}}"
 author = "{{cookiecutter.full_name}}"
 try:
-    release = setuptools_scm.get_version(root="../..", relative_to=__file__)
+    full_version = get_version(project)
+    # Splitting the release on '+' to remove the commit hash
+    release = full_version.split('+', 1)[0]
 except LookupError:
     # if git is not initialised, still allow local build
     # with a dummy version