diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9774ad62aa44501c3b900a9a8dda8c64b98c656d..cb5757a9b7e5d1f37ad2b65791530be9fa3e8e66 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,4 +4,3 @@ dist
 env
 *.egg-info
 *.sw?
-version.txt
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 0b008802be4b67d267caecccd8a3ee806fef28a4..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-include edosl0util/version.txt
diff --git a/edosl0util/__init__.py b/edosl0util/__init__.py
index 52493f144a48d19ec0f188b918c464faa76ff1f0..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 100644
--- a/edosl0util/__init__.py
+++ b/edosl0util/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-### PyVer Loader Start
-import pkg_resources as _pkg
-execfile(_pkg.resource_filename(__name__, 'version.txt'))
-del _pkg
-### PyVer Loader End