missing _version.py after package installation

[Borda]

Hello, I may have a silly question but could find a solution. We wanted to use this package version but for some reason, the generated _version.py file is missing the insulation. I have checked and when I build the package the file is there but after installing when I wrap the import with try/expect and list files in the root module the file is missing

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/runner/work/.../sdk/__init__.py", line 47, in <module>
    raise RuntimeError(f"The version file is missing.\n {list_files}")
RuntimeError: The version file is missing.
 ['job', 'py.typed', 'api', 'utils', 'helpers.py', '__init__.py', '__pycache__', 'constants.py', 'cli']

so I have also added the file to MANIFEST.in

include sdk/_version.py

and mention it in package data - pyproject.toml

[tool.setuptools]
include-package-data = true

[tool.setuptools.package-data]
"sdk" = ["_version.py"]

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Please include the configuration of setuptools_scm in the question

Version files are a opt in

[Borda]

this is the configuration from pyproject.toml

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools>=64", "setuptools-scm>=8", "build"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

[project]
...
dynamic = ["version"]

[project.scripts]
lightning = "sdk.cli.entrypoint:main_cli"

[tool.setuptools_scm]
version_file = "sdk/_version.py"

[tool.setuptools]
include-package-data = true

[tool.setuptools.package-data]
"sdk" = ["_version.py"]

[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
exclude = ["tests*", "examples*"]

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

There's need for extra details

Based on the provided information things should work

[Borda]

There's need for extra details

sure, but what kind of information would be helpful...
so this is an error with CI and we uploaded the very same package as the job artifact, so when we install the package locally all seems to work fine but when it is installed with CI it crashes for missing file...

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

whats helpful
is unclear as i have no idea about the origin of the issue - the provided information so far seems to imply correctness - which is not observed