From 9759645f927f42f72794b7df2f57fa721fbda39c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Petykiewicz <anewusername@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 20:16:06 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] move version info into VERSION.py

This avoid needing custom spec files for pyinstaller, which doesn't
handle package_data by default
---
 mem_edit/VERSION     | 1 -
 mem_edit/VERSION.py  | 4 ++++
 mem_edit/__init__.py | 6 ++----
 setup.py             | 6 +++---
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 mem_edit/VERSION
 create mode 100644 mem_edit/VERSION.py

diff --git a/mem_edit/VERSION b/mem_edit/VERSION
deleted file mode 100644
index bd73f47..0000000
--- a/mem_edit/VERSION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0.4
diff --git a/mem_edit/VERSION.py b/mem_edit/VERSION.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3aacc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mem_edit/VERSION.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+""" VERSION defintion. THIS FILE IS MANUALLY PARSED BY setup.py and REQUIRES A SPECIFIC FORMAT """
+__version__ = '''
+0.4
+'''
diff --git a/mem_edit/__init__.py b/mem_edit/__init__.py
index 8947638..a4a0178 100644
--- a/mem_edit/__init__.py
+++ b/mem_edit/__init__.py
@@ -12,16 +12,14 @@ To get started, try:
 
 """
 import platform
-import pathlib
 
 from .utils import MemEditError
 
 
 __author__ = 'Jan Petykiewicz'
 
-with open(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / 'VERSION', 'r') as f:
-    __version__ = f.read().strip()
-version = __version__
+from .VERSION import __version__
+version = __version__       # legacy compatibility
 
 
 system = platform.system()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5b53ab7..3a55145 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 with open('README.md', 'r') as f:
     long_description = f.read()
 
-with open('mem_edit/VERSION', 'r') as f:
-    version = f.read().strip()
+with open('mem_edit/VERSION.py', 'rt') as f:
+    version = f.readlines()[2].strip()
 
 setup(name='mem_edit',
       version=version,
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ setup(name='mem_edit',
       ],
       packages=find_packages(),
       package_data={
-          'mem_edit': ['VERSION']
+          'mem_edit': []
       },
       install_requires=[
             'typing',