From bed6ceee70cdfbf97c19be3c51037462bc4294f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott K Logan <logans@cottsay.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:23:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify version check in setup.py (#559)

The motivation here is to drop the dependency on pkg_resources.
---
 setup.py | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index daf914b5..698119c8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,15 +4,11 @@
 import os
 import sys
 
-from pkg_resources import parse_version
 from setuptools import setup
 
-minimum_version = '3.6'
-if (
-    parse_version('%d.%d' % (sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor)) <
-    parse_version(minimum_version)
-):
-    sys.exit('This package requires at least Python ' + minimum_version)
+minimum_version = (3, 6)
+if sys.version_info < minimum_version:
+    sys.exit('This package requires at least Python %d.%d' % minimum_version)
 
 cmdclass = {}
 try: