function at pyfluent module level to print the last commit date/time

[seanpearsonuk]

From @mkundu1

I was wondering if we can have a function at pyfluent module level to print the last commit date/time, SHA id (similar to what we have in Fluent). Often we see people are running older version of pyfluent (installed from .whl file) and landing into issues. One way of doing this is we can check-in a txt file with the commit info and update it with pre-commit during every commit. I'm wondering whether Roberto can look into it or find some other way of doing it.

[dnwillia-work]

For package users everyone should be installing versioned packages instead, which would be tagged at a specific shaID already right.

So, if you do that I'd just update the content when we tag a release, or when a PR is merged, as opposed to whenever there is a commit. You can probably do this in the ci.yml then rather than pre-commit.

[RobPasMue]

So, if you do that I'd just update the content when we tag a release, or when a PR is merged, as opposed to whenever there is a commit. You can probably do this in the ci.yml then rather than pre-commit.

I agree that this should rather be a "stable" feature rather than a "per-commit" feature, such that the information is updated under certain circumstances only (i.e. when the main branch is updated, basically - via PR merge - and not in every commit). That way, whenever a a tag is generated at a certain commit from the main branch, this file would already be updated.

I'll look into how to configure this inside the ci.yml file. It shouldn't be complicated.