Merge pull request #59 from NREL/58_versioneer

Remove versioneer in favor of setuptools_scm.  Fix some deprecation warnings due to numpy.  Add support up to Python 3.11.  Drop Python 3.6 and 3.7 support.

.github/workflows/pytest.yaml

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ jobs:
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
-      fail-fast: false  # don't cancel other matrix jobs when one fails
+      fail-fast: true  # don't cancel other matrix jobs when one fails
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.7"]
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.11"]
         # Test two environments:
         # 1) dependencies with pinned versions from requirements.txt
         # 2) 'pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy=eager .' to install upgraded

bifacialvf/__init__.py

@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@
 from bifacialvf.BF_BifacialIrradiances.LandscapeSingleHour import LandscapeSingleHour # For calculateBilInterpol
 from bifacialvf.BF_BifacialIrradiances.PortraitSingleHour import PortraitSingleHour # For calculateBilInterpol
 
-from ._version import get_versions
-__version__ = get_versions()['version']
-del get_versions
+try:
+    from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
+except ImportError:
+    # for python < 3.8 (remove when dropping 3.7 support)
+    from importlib_metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
+
+try:
+    __version__ = version(__package__)
+except PackageNotFoundError:
+    __version__ = "0+unknown"