Handle the version in setup.cfg (as well as everything else)

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 31c5f24e7..627655f00 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = pylint
+version = attr: pylint.__version__
 license = GPL-2.0-or-later
 license_files =
     COPYING
@@ -40,8 +41,6 @@ classifiers =
 zip_safe = True
 packages = find:
 python_requires = ~=3.6
-setup_requires =
-
 install_requires =
     astroid>=2.5.2,<2.7
     isort>=4.2.5,<6
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 47877d554..7f1a1763c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,16 +1,4 @@
-# Licensed under the GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
-# For details: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/blob/master/COPYING
-
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Dict
-
 from setuptools import setup
 
-HERE = Path(__file__).parent
-
-__pkginfo__: Dict[str, Any] = {}
-with open(HERE / "pylint/__pkginfo__.py", encoding="UTF-8") as f:
-    exec(f.read(), __pkginfo__)  # pylint: disable=exec-used
-
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    setup(version=__pkginfo__["__version__"])
+    setup()