Make sure of versiontools for version handling.

compressor/__init__.py

@@ -1,16 +1,2 @@
-VERSION = (0, 9, 2, "f", 0)  # following PEP 386
-DEV_N = None
-
-
-def get_version():
-    version = "%s.%s" % (VERSION[0], VERSION[1])
-    if VERSION[2]:
-        version = "%s.%s" % (version, VERSION[2])
-    if VERSION[3] != "f":
-        version = "%s%s%s" % (version, VERSION[3], VERSION[4])
-        if DEV_N:
-            version = "%s.dev%s" % (version, DEV_N)
-    return version
-
-
-__version__ = get_version()
+# following PEP 386, versiontools will pick it up
+__version__ = (1, 0, 0, "alpha", 1)

setup.py

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ VERSION = __import__("compressor").__version__
 
 setup(
     name = "django_compressor",
-    version = VERSION,
+    version = ":versiontools:compressor:",
     url = 'http://django_compressor.readthedocs.org/',
     license = 'BSD',
     description = "Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into single cached files.",
@@ -124,4 +124,7 @@ setup(
     install_requires=[
         'django-appconf >= 0.4',
     ],
+    setup_requires=[
+        'versiontools >= 1.6',
+    ],
 )