diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cfb10a04..c265704b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -72,12 +72,6 @@ def remove_prefix(name, prefix):
 
 logging.basicConfig(level=getattr(logging,args[0].log),format='%(levelname)s:%(message)s',filename=args[0].log_file)
 logging.debug('setup.py called with the following optional args\n %s\n argument parsing completed.',vars(args[0]))
-try:
-    _p = Popen(["svnversion", "."], stdout=PIPE)
-    revision = _p.communicate()[0].decode('ascii')
-except Exception:
-    revision = "unknown"
-logging.debug('Source from svn revision {}'.format(revision[:-1])) # exclude newline 
 
 #If prefix is set, we want to allow installation in a directory that is not on PYTHONPATH
 #and this is only possible with distutils, not setuptools