From b5c7aa7e36ed8987722f5f5dbe4ae051e893fdfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Talha Zaman <talha.zaman@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 16:34:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] get version without importing chumpy

---
 setup.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 527b7b1..6e20eca 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,8 +11,13 @@
 install_reqs = parse_requirements('requirements.txt', session=False)
 install_requires = [str(ir.req) for ir in install_reqs]
 
+def get_version():
+    namespace = {}
+    execfile('chumpy/version.py', namespace)
+    return namespace['version']
+
 setup(name='chumpy',
-    version=importlib.import_module('chumpy').__version__,
+    version=get_version(),
     packages = ['chumpy'],
     author='Matthew Loper',
     author_email='matt.loper@gmail.com',