diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..552cc94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Files to include in the source package - for the case
+# the project directory is are not in a VCS.
+include yml2c
+include yml2proc
+include yml2/*.ysl2
+include yml2/*.yml2
+
+include Makefile
+include *.yhtml2
+include format.css
+include gpl-2.0.txt
+
+include samples/*
+include vim/syntax/*
+
+exclude .hgtags
+exclude .hgignore
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 20fce2c..2574537 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ update-all: update yml2c yml2.py pyPEG.py backend.py yml2proc
 
 clean:
 	rm -f *.html *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo
+	rm -rf *.egg-info
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
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index 0000000..9314b4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[sdist]
+formats=gztar
+
+[metadata]
+name         = yml2
+version      = 2.6.2
+author	     = Volker Birk
+author_email = vb@pep-project.org
+url	     = https://pep.foundation/dev/repos/yml2/
+license	     = GPL v2
+license_file = gpl-2.0.txt
+
+[options]
+packages = yml2
+scripts =
+    yml2c
+    yml2proc
+include_package_data = True
+zip_safe = False
+install_requires = lxml
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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index 0000000..7653c4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+setup(
+    setup_requires = ["setuptools >= 30.3.0"],  # release 2016-12-06
+)