diff --git a/hypercube/version.py b/hypercube/version.py
index 5ca979e..705ebc4 100644
--- a/hypercube/version.py
+++ b/hypercube/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-# Do not edit this file, pipeline versioning is governed by git tags
-__version__="0.0.0"
\ No newline at end of file
+import pkg_resources
+
+__version__ = pkg_resources.get_distribution("hypercube").version
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b35061e..86026e7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,40 +23,13 @@
 import subprocess
 from setuptools._vendor.packaging import version
 
-def get_version():
-    # Versioning code here, based on
-    # http://blogs.nopcode.org/brainstorm/2013/05/20/pragmatic-python-versioning-via-setuptools-and-git-tags/
-
-    # Fetch version from git tags, and write to version.py.
-    # Also, when git is not available (PyPi package), use stored version.py.
-    version_py = os.path.join('hypercube', 'version.py')
-
-    try:
-        version_git = str(subprocess.check_output(['git', 'describe',
-                                                   '--tags']).rstrip())
-    except:
-        with open(version_py, 'r') as fh:
-            version_git = str(open(version_py).read().strip().split('=')[-1].replace('"',''))
-
-    try:
-        version.parse(version_git)
-    except version.InvalidVersion:
-        version_git = "0.0.0" # valid dev version
-
-    version_msg = "# Do not edit this file, pipeline versioning is governed by git tags"
-
-    with open(version_py, 'w') as fh:
-        fh.write(str(version_msg) + str(os.linesep) + "__version__=\"" +
-                 str(version_git) +"\"")
-
-    return str(version_git)
 
 def readme():
     with open('README.md') as f:
         return f.read()
 
 setup(name='hypercube',
-    version=get_version(),
+    version='0.3.5',
     description='Actually an n-orthotope.',
     long_description=readme(),
     url='http://github.com/ska-sa/hypercube',