Experiment with using setuptools_scm for release management. This approach drastically simplifies the codebase, but imposes an initial dependency at install time, which could prove problemmatic in scenarios where connectivity is limited. This approach may not be viable for real-world consumption, but I'm committing it in this branch for consideration with no plans to release it without more testing and discussion.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/__init__.py b/setuptools/__init__.py
index 712ec082..b0a5401f 100644
--- a/setuptools/__init__.py
+++ b/setuptools/__init__.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from distutils.core import Command as _Command
 from distutils.util import convert_path
 from fnmatch import fnmatchcase
 
-import setuptools.version
+import pkg_resources
 from setuptools.extension import Extension
 from setuptools.dist import Distribution, Feature, _get_unpatched
 from setuptools.depends import Require
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ __all__ = [
     'find_packages'
 ]
 
-__version__ = setuptools.version.__version__
+__version__ = pkg_resources.require('setuptools')[0].version
 
 bootstrap_install_from = None