From cfa2f34a4c049a68b021bc82704416e7d517f183 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@pingoured.fr>
Date: Jan 21 2019 11:16:39 +0000
Subject: Get the version by reading the file rather than importing it


Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@pingoured.fr>

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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1821fe5..8836c03 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,13 +4,19 @@
 Setup script
 """
 
-# These two lines are needed to run on EL6
-__requires__ = ['SQLAlchemy >= 0.7', 'jinja2 >= 2.4']
-import pkg_resources
+import os
+import re
+from setuptools import setup
 
-from fedora_elections import __version__
+versionfile = os.path.join(
+    os.path.dirname(__file__), 'fedora_elections', '__init__.py')
 
-from setuptools import setup
+# Thanks to SQLAlchemy:
+# https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/blob/master/setup.py#L104
+with open(versionfile) as stream:
+    __version__ = re.compile(
+        r".*__version__ = '(.*?)'", re.S
+    ).match(stream.read()).group(1)
 
 setup(
     name='fedora-elections',