diff --git a/pyopencl/__init__.py b/pyopencl/__init__.py
index 5dd83c220424ec56e433b21e727a6872b68f5a0e..d46813b4763a999d38a0a0a6aced055e6c8adb50 100644
--- a/pyopencl/__init__.py
+++ b/pyopencl/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-VERSION = (0, 90, 1)
-VERSION_STATUS = ""
-VERSION_TEXT = ".".join(str(x) for x in VERSION) + VERSION_STATUS
+from pyopencl.version import VERSION, VERSION_STATUS, VERSION_TEXT
 
 import pyopencl._cl as _cl
 from pyopencl._cl import *
diff --git a/pyopencl/version.py b/pyopencl/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2861aa3995b73b30500549dc9cd41f589ab02a5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyopencl/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+VERSION = (0, 90, 1)
+VERSION_STATUS = ""
+VERSION_TEXT = ".".join(str(x) for x in VERSION) + VERSION_STATUS
+
+
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 265ee8a95cf2dca2e2549005c7de277d850d5ff9..bcce3521a0be580312a53a55336007f8aea4f798 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def main():
     ext_kwargs = dict()
 
     ver_dic = {}
-    execfile("pycuda/__init__.py", ver_dic)
+    execfile("pyopencl/version.py", ver_dic)
 
     setup(name="pyopencl",
             # metadata