infrastructure-version-management-no-module-named-vllm-version-appears-when-serving--ad5c14ca

THEN Ensure that the version string is not hardcoded without generating _version.py. In setup.py, avoid an early return of a static version; instead, follow the normal get_version flow that writes _version.py. If a static version is needed, manually create or include _version.py in the package.

def get_vllm_version() -> str:
    version = get_version(
        write_to="vllm/_version.py",
    )
    return version