build: derive versions from SCM and gate PyPI publishing

.github/workflows/push_wheel.yaml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
     - uses: actions/setup-python@ece7cb06caefa5fff74198d8649806c4678c61a1 # v6.3.0
       with:
-        python-version: "3.8"
+        python-version: "3.11"
         cache: "pip"
 
     - name: Install dependencies
@@ -56,8 +56,5 @@ jobs:
     #     verbose: true
 
     - name: Publish distribution 📦 to PyPI
-      if: startsWith(github.event.ref, 'refs/tags')
+      if: github.event_name == 'release'
       uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@cef221092ed1bacb1cc03d23a2d87d1d172e277b # v1.14.0
-      with:
-        user: __token__
-        password: ${{ secrets.pypi_password }}

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
-    "setuptools>=61.0.0",
+    "setuptools>=80",
+    "setuptools-scm[simple]>=9.2",
     "wheel",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
@@ -65,9 +66,6 @@ tests = [
     "torchvision"
 ]
 
-[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
-version = {attr = "litlogger.__version__"}
-
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
 where = ["src"]
 exclude = ["tests*", "examples*"]

src/litlogger/__init__.py

@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 For reference documentation, see https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litlogger.
 """
 
-__version__ = "2026.08.28"
+from importlib.metadata import version
+
+__version__ = version("litlogger")
 
 # Import core classes
 # Import preinit utilities