1 files changed, 16 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c9485de7f..e9967f453 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,33 +18,38 @@
 import ez_setup
 ez_setup.use_setuptools()
 
+import os
+import re
 import sys
-from string import Template
-
-sys.path.insert(0, 'src')
 
-from mailman.version import VERSION as __version__
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+from string import Template
 
-
-
 if sys.hexversion < 0x20600f0:
     print 'Mailman requires at least Python 2.6'
     sys.exit(1)
 
 
+# Calculate the version number without importing the mailman package.
+with open('src/mailman/version.py') as fp:
+    for line in fp:
+        mo = re.match('VERSION = "(?P<version>[^"]+?)"', line)
+        if mo:
+            __version__ = mo.group('version')
+            break
+    else:
+        print 'No version number found'
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+
 
 # Ensure that all the .mo files are generated from the corresponding .po file.
 # This procedure needs to be made sane, probably when the language packs are
 # properly split out.
 
-import os
-import mailman.commands
-import mailman.messages
-
 # Create the .mo files from the .po files.  There may be errors and warnings
 # here and that could cause the digester.txt test to fail.
-start_dir = os.path.dirname(mailman.messages.__file__)
+start_dir = os.path.dirname('src/mailman/messages')
 for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(start_dir):
     for filename in filenames:
         po_file = os.path.join(dirpath, filename)