infrastructure-version-management-when-running-vllm-serve-after-installing-vllm-0-6--2a8bc80c

THEN Ensure the package version is not hardcoded in setup.py's get_vllm_version() function. Instead, use setuptools_scm's get_version() with the write_to parameter to dynamically generate the vllm/_version.py module. Remove any early return that skips this generation, so that the _version module is created and importable.

# Instead of:
def get_vllm_version() -> str:
    return "0.6.3."  # hardcoded, skips _version.py

# Use:
def get_vllm_version() -> str:
    version = get_version(write_to="vllm/_version.py")
    # ... process version