This patch removes fasteners and disables zarr.sync which uses process and thread
diff --git a/zarr/__init__.py b/zarr/__init__.py
index 8079bab..6a820a4 100644
--- a/zarr/__init__.py
+++ b/zarr/__init__.py      
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from zarr.storage import (ABSStore, DBMStore, DictStore, DirectoryStore,
                           LMDBStore, LRUStoreCache, MemoryStore, MongoDBStore,
                           NestedDirectoryStore, RedisStore, SQLiteStore,
                           TempStore, ZipStore)
-from zarr.sync import ProcessSynchronizer, ThreadSynchronizer
+# from zarr.sync import ProcessSynchronizer, ThreadSynchronizer
 from zarr.version import version as __version__
 
 # in case setuptools scm screw up and find version to be 0.0.0

 diff --git a/zarr/sync.py b/zarr/sync.py
index fa5d811..96cd424 100644
--- a/zarr/sync.py
+++ b/zarr/sync.py  
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ import os
 from collections import defaultdict
 from threading import Lock
 
-import fasteners
-
 
 class ThreadSynchronizer(object):
     """Provides synchronization using thread locks."""
@@ -41,6 +39,7 @@ class ProcessSynchronizer(object):
         self.path = path
 
     def __getitem__(self, item):
+        import fasteners
         path = os.path.join(self.path, item)
         lock = fasteners.InterProcessLock(path)
         return lock

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d7582c8..ad10d9f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py      
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ with open('README.md') as f:
 dependencies = [
     'asciitree',
     'numpy>=1.7',
-    'fasteners',
+    # 'fasteners',
     'numcodecs>=0.6.4',
 ]