Set to build a source distribution instead of build distribution

for aqt on qt/Makefile, because .whl files are just zip simple
zip files and do not support dynamic versioning. Also, there is no
restriction for aqt to be shipped as source tarball because it does
not ship any binaries.

.github/workflows/checks.yml

@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ jobs:
           copy %pyaudio% dist
           cd dist
           setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
-          cmd /C set "wheels=" && for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b *.whl') DO set "wheels="%%i" !wheels!"
+          cmd /C set "wheels=" && for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b *.*') DO set "wheels="%%i" !wheels!"
           python -m pip install %wheels%
           python -c "import aqt; # aqt.run()"
 
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           set -x
           cd dist
-          python -m pip install *.whl
+          python -m pip install *.*
           python -c "import aqt; # aqt.run()"
 
       - run: make check

qt/Makefile

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ TSDEPS := $(wildcard ts/src/*.ts) $(wildcard ts/scss/*.scss)
 	python -m black aqt/gui_hooks.py
 	@touch $@
 
-BUILD_STEPS := .build/run-deps .build/dev-deps .build/js .build/ui aqt/buildinfo.py .build/hooks .build/i18n
+BUILD_STEPS := .build/vernum .build/run-deps .build/dev-deps .build/js .build/ui aqt/buildinfo.py .build/hooks .build/i18n
 
 # Checking
 ######################
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ CHECKDEPS := $(shell ${FIND} aqt tests -name '*.py' | grep -v buildinfo.py)
 .PHONY: build
 build: $(BUILD_STEPS)
 	rm -rf dist build
-	python setup.py -q bdist_wheel
-	rsync -a dist/*.whl ../dist/
+	python setup.py -q sdist
+	rsync -a dist/*.tar.gz ../dist/
 
 .PHONY: develop
 develop: $(BUILD_STEPS)
@@ -138,3 +138,9 @@ develop: $(BUILD_STEPS)
 aqt/buildinfo.py: ../meta/version ../meta/buildhash
 	echo "buildhash='$$(cat ../meta/buildhash)'" > $@
 	echo "version='$$(cat ../meta/version)'" >> $@
+
+VER := $(shell cat ../meta/version)
+.build/vernum: ../meta/version
+	sed -i.bak 's/.*automatically updated.*/    version="$(VER)",  # automatically updated/' setup.py
+	rm setup.py.bak
+	@touch $@

qt/pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[build-system]
+# Minimum requirements for the build system to execute.
+# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48048745/setup-py-require-a-recent-version-of-setuptools-before-trying-to-install
+requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]

qt/setup.py

@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 import setuptools
 
-with open("../meta/version") as fh:
-    version = fh.read().strip()
-
 
 def package_files(directory):
     entries = []
@@ -59,7 +56,7 @@ if not IS_PYQT_INSTALLED or (
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="aqt",
-    version=version,
+    version="2.1.24",  # automatically updated
     author="Ankitects Pty Ltd",
     description="Anki's Qt GUI code",
     long_description="Anki's QT GUI code",