From 653f9a7f176a9692162025b9ae74ddb7497852d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noel Mace <contact@noelmace.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 11:28:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] build: external version number

---
 MANIFEST.in | 1 +
 VERSION     | 1 +
 setup.py    | 5 +++--
 3 files changed, 5 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 0000000..ceeea23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include VERSION
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9325c3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.3.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6c8f676..16ff4f0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 from os import path
 
-version = '0.3.0'
-
 repo_base_dir = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
 
+with open(path.join(repo_base_dir, 'VERSION')) as version_file:
+    version = version_file.read().strip()
+
 # Long description
 readme = path.join(repo_base_dir, 'README.md')
 with open(readme) as f: