From ecaf75fe9e4d89e845786a1dd2cc1f88f19f12aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:11:34 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: Remove annoying version.py.

---
 skimage/__init__.py | 5 ++++-
 skimage/version.py  | 2 --
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 skimage/version.py

diff --git a/skimage/__init__.py b/skimage/__init__.py
index a58f1c54..d7bfb5a2 100644
--- a/skimage/__init__.py
+++ b/skimage/__init__.py
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ import os.path as _osp
 pkg_dir = _osp.abspath(_osp.dirname(__file__))
 data_dir = _osp.join(pkg_dir, 'data')
 
-from version import version as __version__
+try:
+    from .version import version as __version__
+except ImportError:
+    __version__ = "unbuilt-dev"
 
 def _setup_test(verbose=False):
     import gzip
diff --git a/skimage/version.py b/skimage/version.py
deleted file mode 100644
index ab15b0be..00000000
--- a/skimage/version.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# THIS FILE IS GENERATED FROM THE SKIMAGE SETUP.PY
-version='unbuilt-dev'