From 8917116f1718d6f94a2deff6fcb0bab6895af2f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: benne238 <benne238@purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 17:28:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] store version in dedicated file and point setup.py to that
 file to pull the version from there

---
 VERSION  | 1 +
 setup.py | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 VERSION

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..300683f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+VERSION = 1.9.1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 58d8fe3..76e8ca3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
 import setuptools
 from pathlib import Path
+from os import environ
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+
+current_dir = Path(__file__).parent
+version_file_path = Path(current_dir, "VERSION")
+load_dotenv(version_file_path)
+
+VERSION = environ.get("VERSION")
 
-VERSION = "2.1.0"
 python_ldap_version = "3.3.1"
 
 setuptools.setup(