From ded79e85f413f2869342d202412b2e7057bead00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dana Powers <dana.powers@rd.io>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 15:54:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Set __version__ string in kafka/version.py

---
 MANIFEST.in       | 1 -
 VERSION           | 1 -
 kafka/__init__.py | 4 +---
 kafka/version.py  | 1 +
 setup.py          | 6 +++---
 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 VERSION
 create mode 100644 kafka/version.py

diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 68bd7939c..bdd65051c 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-include VERSION
 recursive-include kafka *.py
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
deleted file mode 100644
index 8caff3251..000000000
--- a/VERSION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0.9.4-dev
diff --git a/kafka/__init__.py b/kafka/__init__.py
index 3536084aa..396a8b83d 100644
--- a/kafka/__init__.py
+++ b/kafka/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 __title__ = 'kafka'
-# Use setuptools to get version from setup.py
-import pkg_resources
-__version__ = pkg_resources.require('kafka-python')[0].version
+from .version import __version__
 __author__ = 'David Arthur'
 __license__ = 'Apache License 2.0'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2015, David Arthur under Apache License, v2.0'
diff --git a/kafka/version.py b/kafka/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5b721edda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kafka/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__version__ = '0.9.4-dev'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f1c195408..8e4fb6652 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 import os
 from setuptools import setup, Command
 
-with open('VERSION', 'r') as v:
-    __version__ = v.read().rstrip()
-
+# Pull version from source without importing
+# since we can't import something we haven't built yet :)
+exec(open('kafka/version.py').read())
 
 class Tox(Command):