Feat/ersions from git

[mathleur]

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[Oisin-M]

@mathleur, let's put the static library/rust deployment work on a separate PR to avoid mixing too many things. For the versions, this looks like it could work for the cd action, but it won't work for anyone installing directly from the git repo which is problematic for development. I think the way to do this is to have an actual rust build script