Version string for "Download ZIP"

[furutaka]

I made the version string taken from the output of git describe --tags --long. It's OK if the tools were downloaded by doing git clone, but when the source was downloaded as a ZIP the version string becomes 0.0.0.
I think we need to add a GitHub hook to set the version string in setup.py for ZIP downloads, thought I know almost nothing about the hooks. (A negative/tempral solution would be to disable "Download ZIP")

[kbat]

Why can't we just set up version manually? From my point of view, changing version is not something we do every day, therefore I think it's OK to do it manually when we decide to do it.
As far as I know, even in such a large project like Plone they recommend to do it manually, llike, for instance, in this setup.py.

[furutaka]

I think it's OK to manually set the version number if you release only some selected/tagged commits as tarballs/zips. But cloned source files from an open repository differ for every commit, and therefore I think it's better to assign every commit a version tag for identification. I also tend to forget rewriting the version number for some files... ;-<