5 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3397f2a..31236db 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-/jsonschema/_version.py
-/version.txt
-
 _cache
 _static
 _templates
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index a122503..a951c8a 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 include *.rst
 include COPYING
 include tox.ini
-include version.txt
 recursive-include json *
diff --git a/jsonschema/__init__.py b/jsonschema/__init__.py
index 38857fd..7aa31de 100644
--- a/jsonschema/__init__.py
+++ b/jsonschema/__init__.py
@@ -24,6 +24,5 @@ from jsonschema.validators import (
     Draft3Validator, Draft4Validator, RefResolver, validate
 )
 
-from jsonschema._version import __version__
-
-# flake8: noqa
+from pkg_resources import get_distribution
+__version__ = get_distribution(__name__).version
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b796ba4..db6a9ec 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -30,18 +30,23 @@ extras_require = {
 
 setup(
     name="jsonschema",
-    packages=["jsonschema", "jsonschema.tests"],
-    package_data={"jsonschema": ["schemas/*.json"]},
-    install_requires=["attrs>=17.3.0", "pyrsistent>=0.14.0", "six>=1.11.0"],
-    setup_requires=["vcversioner>=2.16.0.0"],
-    extras_require=extras_require,
-    author="Julian Berman",
-    author_email="Julian@GrayVines.com",
     classifiers=classifiers,
     description="An implementation of JSON Schema validation for Python",
     license="MIT",
     long_description=long_description,
     url="http://github.com/Julian/jsonschema",
+
+    author="Julian Berman",
+    author_email="Julian@GrayVines.com",
+
+    setup_requires=["setuptools_scm"],
+    use_scm_version=True,
+
+    install_requires=["attrs>=17.3.0", "pyrsistent>=0.14.0", "six>=1.11.0"],
+    extras_require=extras_require,
+
+    packages=["jsonschema", "jsonschema.tests"],
+    package_data={"jsonschema": ["schemas/*.json"]},
+
     entry_points={"console_scripts": ["jsonschema = jsonschema.cli:main"]},
-    vcversioner={"version_module_paths": ["jsonschema/_version.py"]},
 )
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 9a83729..3260519 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ commands = flake8 {posargs} {toxinidir}/jsonschema {toxinidir}/docs {toxinidir}/
 
 
 [flake8]
-exclude = jsonschema/_reflect.py
+exclude = jsonschema/__init__.py,jsonschema/_reflect.py
 
 [testenv:coverage]
 commands =