Set up continuous deployment

[rusheb]

The release process is a bit clunky. We should sort it out.

We can probably just copy what TransformerLens does

Some extra resources:

• https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2021/02/11/automating-pypi-releases/
• https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/publishing-package-distribution-releases-using-github-actions-ci-cd-workflows/

[rusheb]

Looking into this further, dunder version is not working in TransformerLens:

>>> import transformer_lens
>>> transformer_lens.__version__
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'transformer_lens' has no attribute '__version__'

@mivanit how important is this?

I found this thread containing a number of suggestions I could try

[rusheb]

@mivanit quick update - this is blocked because I can't upload a pypi token to the repository secrets.

Please can you do this?

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/encrypted-secrets

[mivanit]

I think we can set the version with:

• ship the pyproject.toml and have __version__ in __init__.py set from reading the toml file
• __version__ = pkg_resources.get_distribution("muutils").version (although I'm not sure you can do this from inside the package you are currently in)

I've uploaded a pypi token as the creatively named PYPI_TOKEN in the repo secrets

[rusheb]

Documenting the current release process here:

• update __version__ in __init.py__
• update version in pyproject.toml
• create tag
• push tag (e.g. git push origin 0.2.1)
• poetry publish