Use hatchling and versioningit for versioning

These changes integrate the use of hatchling and versioningit for project versioning, so to add git commit information to the version numbers. Version numbers are now auto-generated from tags or tags+distance as necessary.

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ variables:
   GIT_SUBMODULE_DEPTH: 1
   XDG_CONFIG_HOME: $CI_PROJECT_DIR/tests/data
 
+.snippets:
+  setup-metadata:
+    - pip install hatch
+    - PACKAGE_NAME=$(hatch project metadata name)
+    - PACKAGE_VERSION=$(hatch project metadata version)
+
 documentation:
   before_script:
     # for opencv-python dependence