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

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions

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()