[python-cffi] Version number for the `notmuch2` bindings

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Thu 18 Jun 2020 at 16:56 -0300, David Bremner wrote:

> Frank LENORMAND <lenormf.ml at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The original Python bindings follow the entire repository's version
>> number[1]. The new Python bindings use `0.1`[2].
>>
>> The Debian package[3] follows the same version number as well, but
>> it's starting to confuse maintainers of packages for other environments
>> (e.g. Pypi[4]), who use `0.1` because that's what's in the code.
>
> Floris might have some good reason in mind for the divergence. I will
> say it's a pain in Debian to have different binary packages (.deb's)
> built from the same source with different version numbers. So I'd need
> to be convinced.

There is no good reason, it was overlooked when merging the cffi
bindings into notmuch proper.

Is there any reason we can not directly read the toplevel version file
from inside setup.py instead of having to add sed hackery?

Cheers,
Floris