uv build backend cannot compute version dynamically
Build backends cannot set the package version dynamically from git tags or a command-line argument.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 31 October 2024 · last reported 14 June 2025
What's going wrong
Release engineers want package versions to come from git tags or a build argument, so CI does not edit files.
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