From e81b13a83211ae00b83dd10a123eea27f9347688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dana Powers <dana.powers@rd.io>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:18:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Set module version in separate VERSION file

---
 MANIFEST.in       | 2 ++
 VERSION           | 1 +
 kafka/__init__.py | 4 +++-
 setup.py          | 3 ++-
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 MANIFEST.in
 create mode 100644 VERSION

diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..68bd7939c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+include VERSION
+recursive-include kafka *.py
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac39a106c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.9.0
diff --git a/kafka/__init__.py b/kafka/__init__.py
index e446f58f1..41dc25a39 100644
--- a/kafka/__init__.py
+++ b/kafka/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 __title__ = 'kafka'
-__version__ = '0.9.0'
+# Use setuptools to get version from setup.py
+import pkg_resources
+__version__ = pkg_resources.require('kafka-python')[0].version
 __author__ = 'David Arthur'
 __license__ = 'Apache License 2.0'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2012, David Arthur under Apache License, v2.0'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6e2c50901..d719bf421 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 from setuptools import setup, Command
 
-from kafka import __version__
+with open('VERSION', 'r') as v:
+    __version__ = v.read().rstrip()
 
 class Tox(Command):