Windows .exe misses version info

[TheLastProject]

The macOS .dmg has a version number such as Pext-0.19.29.g659fb76.dmg.

The version can be retrieved by running python setup.py (which will fail, but also save the correct version to pext/VERSION).

It would be great if this could be added to the .exe filename and the NSIS installer (and uninstall area on Windows) in .appveyor.yaml.

Probably very easy for someone who actually knows Windows, but I'm too Linux for this :)

[devansh289]

I'll start on this.

[TheLastProject]

Tell me if you need any help :)

[TangentFoxy]

I don't know what conda is, but it seems to me a good place to run python setup.py to get the version info would be after installing requirements (line 12)?

How would I make sure this failing doesn't cause the entire build to fail?

[TheLastProject]

Under Linux you'd do something like python3 setup.py || true to always give a positive error code. I'm not sure what would be the Windows equivalent of this in AppVeyor