{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/soft-matter/trackpy/issues/276","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/soft-matter/trackpy/issues/276/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/soft-matter/trackpy/issues/276/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/soft-matter/trackpy/issues/276/events","html_url":"https://github.com/soft-matter/trackpy/issues/276","id":105261708,"number":276,"title":"__version__ on Windows returning 0+unknown","user":{"login":"apiszcz","id":1430861,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1430861?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz","html_url":"https://github.com/apiszcz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/apiszcz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-09-07T19:47:21Z","updated_at":"2015-09-07T20:11:46Z","closed_at":null,"body":"If I perform the following steps in Linux the version is correctly reported as 0.3rc1.\r\ngit clone https://github.com/soft-matter/trackpy\r\npip install -e trackpy\r\n\r\nWhen I copy the trackpy folder to a windows system an import trackpy I get 0+unknown.\r\n\r\nReviewing _version.py it seems a .git folder is required to locate the version in git_versions_from_keywords.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/soft-matter/trackpy/issues/comments/138369532","html_url":"https://github.com/soft-matter/trackpy/issues/276#issuecomment-138369532","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/soft-matter/trackpy/issues/276","id":138369532,"user":{"login":"tacaswell","id":199813,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/199813?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell","html_url":"https://github.com/tacaswell","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-09-07T20:11:46Z","updated_at":"2015-09-07T20:11:46Z","body":"Don't do that, or at least make sure you copy the hidden folders as well.  It might work better if you don't use `-e` which installs and editable version (so soft links).\r\n\r\nThe simplest solution is to just clone it on the windows side as well.\r\n\r\n"}}