Move version into its own file so that setuptools machinery isn't necessary to elicit the version.

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extra : rebase_source : 1611131e6765a30fd0fe94d8455418ccd3ae46ae

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/__init__.py b/setuptools/__init__.py
index 6dc64e5e..45b95f90 100644
--- a/setuptools/__init__.py
+++ b/setuptools/__init__.py
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ from distutils.core import Command as _Command
 from distutils.util import convert_path
 import os
 import sys
+from setuptools.version import __version__
 
-__version__ = '0.9.9'
 __all__ = [
     'setup', 'Distribution', 'Feature', 'Command', 'Extension', 'Require',
     'find_packages'
diff --git a/setuptools/version.py b/setuptools/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1b1a934d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setuptools/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__version__ = '0.9.9'