From 4f972c003996ce09c4ab9f2c784e22b9f867216c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wenzel Jakob <wenzel.jakob@epfl.ch>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:36:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert of the revert of the python package with version
 information

This reverts commit bee8f16dbbbe1db4137bfaae3bdcdfb537361875.
---
 docs/release.rst     | 3 ++-
 pybind11/__init__.py | 1 +
 pybind11/_version.py | 2 ++
 setup.py             | 5 ++---
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 pybind11/__init__.py
 create mode 100644 pybind11/_version.py

diff --git a/docs/release.rst b/docs/release.rst
index b03870419..2296225b1 100644
--- a/docs/release.rst
+++ b/docs/release.rst
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 To release a new version of pybind11:
 
 - Update version macros in `include/pybind11/common.h`
-- Update version in `setup.py`
+- Update `pybind11/_version.py` (set release version, remove 'dev')
 - `git add` and `git commit`.
 - `python setup.py sdist upload`.
 - `python setup.py bdist_wheel upload`.
 - `git tag -a X.X -m 'Release tag comment'`.
+- Update `_version.py` (add 'dev' and increment minor).
 - `git add` and `git commit`. `git push`. `git push --tags`.
 
 The remote for the last `git push --tags` should be the main repository for
diff --git a/pybind11/__init__.py b/pybind11/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4f1853b77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pybind11/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+from ._version import version_info, __version__
diff --git a/pybind11/_version.py b/pybind11/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e1c20f94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pybind11/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+version_info = (1, 3, 'dev0')
+__version__ = '.'.join(map(str, version_info))
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3d910a76a..d8c598726 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
 # Setup script for PyPI; use CMakeFile.txt to build the example application
 
 from setuptools import setup
-
-__version__ = '1.3'
+from pybind11 import __version__
 
 setup(
     name='pybind11',
@@ -14,7 +13,7 @@ setup(
     author_email='wenzel@inf.ethz.ch',
     url='https://github.com/wjakob/pybind11',
     download_url='https://github.com/wjakob/pybind11/tarball/v' + __version__,
-    packages=[],
+    packages=['pybind11'],
     license='BSD',
     headers=[
         'include/pybind11/attr.h',