ENH: Ensure that sys.path has the current directory in setup.py (#1395)

Author: ikhramts

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
   be provided in place of ``data``. ``OpticalSeries.__init__`` now makes ``data`` optional. However, this has the
   side effect of moving the position of ``data`` to later in the argument list, which may break code that relies
   on positional arguments for ``OpticalSeries.__init__``. @rly (#1274)
+- Fixed `setup.py` not being able to import `versioneer` when installing in an embedded Python environment. @ikhramts (#1395)
 
 ## PyNWB 1.5.1 (May 24, 2021)
 

setup.py

@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
+import sys
+
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
+# Some Python installations don't add the current directory to path.
+if '' not in sys.path:
+    sys.path.insert(0, '')
+
 import versioneer
 
 with open('README.rst', 'r') as fp: