diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
deleted file mode 100644
index c33acaf..0000000
--- a/.flake8
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-[flake8]
-max-line-length = 125
-
-## IGNORES
-
-# E126: yapf conflicts with "continuation line over-indented for hanging indent"
-
-# E127: flake8 reporting incorrect continuation line indent errors
-# on multi-line and multi-level indents
-
-# W503: flake8 reports this as incorrect, and scripts/format_code
-# changes code to it, so let format_code win.
-
-ignore = E126,E127,W503
-
-exclude =
-    docs/build
-    .tox
diff --git a/stactask/__init__.py b/stactask/__init__.py
index d50ef90..d68fab3 100644
--- a/stactask/__init__.py
+++ b/stactask/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-# flake8: noqa
+from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
 
-import pkg_resources
-
-__version__ = pkg_resources.get_distribution(__package__).version
+try:
+    __version__ = version("stactask")
+except PackageNotFoundError:
+    # package is not installed
+    pass
 
 from .task import Task