Remove firedrake-install and friends (#4270)

Author: connorjward

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Please do not add screenshots unless the bug is purely graphical.
 **Environment:**
  - OS: [eg: Linux, MacOS, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)] add this as a label too!
  - Python version: [eg: 3.9.7]
- - Output of `firedrake-status`
+ - Output of `pip list`
  - Any relevant environment variables or modifications [eg: PYOP2_DEBUG=1]
 
 **Additional Info**

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -85,10 +85,11 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-import firedrake
-version = "%d.%d" % firedrake.__version_info__[0:2]
+import importlib.metadata
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = firedrake.__version__
+release = importlib.metadata.version("firedrake")
+# Short version dropping the extra tags
+version = ".".join(release.split(".")[:3])
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.

docs/source/install.rst

@@ -56,10 +56,9 @@ To simplify the installation process, Firedrake provides a utility script called
 
   $ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/master/scripts/firedrake-configure
 
-Unlike the now deprecated ``firedrake-install`` script, ``firedrake-configure``
-**does not install Firedrake for you**. It is simply a helper script that emits
-the configuration options that Firedrake needs for the various steps needed
-during installation.
+Note that ``firedrake-configure`` **does not install Firedrake for you**. It
+is simply a helper script that emits the configuration options that Firedrake
+needs for the various steps needed during installation.
 
 To improve robustness, ``firedrake-configure`` is intentionally kept extremely
 minimal and simple. This means that if you want to install Firedrake in a

firedrake/__init__.py

@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@
 from firedrake.variational_solver import *
 from firedrake.eigensolver import *
 from firedrake.vector import *
-from firedrake.version import __version__ as ver, __version_info__, check  # noqa: F401
 from firedrake.ensemble import *
 from firedrake.randomfunctiongen import *
 from firedrake.external_operators import *
@@ -89,12 +88,7 @@
 sys.modules["firedrake.plot"] = plot
 from firedrake.plot import *
 
-check()
-del check, sys
-
-from firedrake._version import get_versions
-__version__ = get_versions()['version']
-del get_versions
+del sys
 
 
 def set_blas_num_threads():
@@ -157,6 +151,3 @@ def warn_omp_num_threads():
     _init_event.end()
     del _init_event
 del _is_logging
-
-from . import _version
-__version__ = _version.get_versions()['version']