Backport PR #54525 on branch 2.1.x (BLD: Fix version script) (#54560)

Backport PR #54525: BLD: Fix version script

Co-authored-by: Thomas Li <47963215+lithomas1@users.noreply.github.com>

.circleci/config.yml

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ jobs:
             fi
       - run:
           name: Build aarch64 wheels
+          no_output_timeout: 30m # Sometimes the tests won't generate any output, make sure the job doesn't get killed by that
           command: |
             pip3 install cibuildwheel==2.14.1
             cibuildwheel --prerelease-pythons --output-dir wheelhouse

generate_version.py

@@ -1,18 +1,30 @@
 # Note: This file has to live next to setup.py or versioneer will not work
 import argparse
 import os
+import sys
 
 import versioneer
 
+sys.path.insert(0, "")
+
 
 def write_version_info(path):
+    version = None
+    git_version = None
+
+    try:
+        import _version_meson
+
+        version = _version_meson.__version__
+        git_version = _version_meson.__git_version__
+    except ImportError:
+        version = versioneer.get_version()
+        git_version = versioneer.get_versions()["full-revisionid"]
     if os.environ.get("MESON_DIST_ROOT"):
         path = os.path.join(os.environ.get("MESON_DIST_ROOT"), path)
     with open(path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
-        file.write(f'__version__="{versioneer.get_version()}"\n')
-        file.write(
-            f'__git_version__="{versioneer.get_versions()["full-revisionid"]}"\n'
-        )
+        file.write(f'__version__="{version}"\n')
+        file.write(f'__git_version__="{git_version}"\n')
 
 
 def main():
@@ -43,7 +55,13 @@ def main():
         write_version_info(args.outfile)
 
     if args.print:
-        print(versioneer.get_version())
+        try:
+            import _version_meson
+
+            version = _version_meson.__version__
+        except ImportError:
+            version = versioneer.get_version()
+        print(version)
 
 
 main()

scripts/validate_unwanted_patterns.py

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
     "_global_config",
     "_chained_assignment_msg",
     "_chained_assignment_method_msg",
+    "_version_meson",
 }