diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b153340
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+JCF, Sep-20-2025: this file doesn't yet contain info about `elisa_client_api`; please see https://github.com/DUNE-DAQ/elisa_client_api/tree/develop/doc for more
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78f0b00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+[build-system]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.0"]
+
+[project]
+name = "elisa_client_api"
+description = "Enables sending of messages to the Elisa logbook"
+version = "1.0.0"
+readme = "docs/README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.6"
+urls = { "homepage" = "https://github.com/DUNE-DAQ/elisa_client_api" }
+dependencies = [
+	     "lxml",
+	     "requests",
+	     ]
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+package-dir = {"" = "src"}
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["src"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.package-data]
+elisa_client_api = ["*"]
+
+[project.scripts]
+elisa_config = "elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_config:main"
+elisa_get = "elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_get:main"
+elisa_insert = "elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_insert:main"
+elisa_reply = "elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_reply:main"
+elisa_update = "elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_update:main"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index aafd826..0000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-requests
-unittest
-urllib
-mimetypes
-xml
-lxml==5.1.0
-http
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c7a05f..0000000
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-[metadata]
-name = elisa_client_api
-version = attr: elisa_client_api.__version__
-url = https://github.com/DUNE-DAQ/elisa_client_api
-# long_description = file: docs/README.md
-# long_description_content_type = text/markdown
-
-[options]
-packages = find:
-package_dir = =src
-include_package_data = true
-python_requires = >= 3.6
-# Dependencies are in setup.py for GitHub's dependency graph.
-
-[options.packages.find]
-where = src
-
-[options.entry_points]
-console_scripts =
-    elisa_config = elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_config:main
-    elisa_get = elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_get:main
-    elisa_insert = elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_insert:main
-    elisa_reply = elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_reply:main
-    elisa_update = elisa_client_api.scripts.elisa_update:main
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b657379..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-from setuptools import setup
-
-# Metadata goes in setup.cfg. These are here for GitHub's dependency graph.
-setup(
-    name="elisa_client_api",
-    install_requires=[
-        "requests",
-        # "urllib",
-        # "mimetypes",
-        # "xml",
-        # "http"
-    ]
-)
diff --git a/src/elisa_client_api/__init__.py b/src/elisa_client_api/__init__.py
index 5becc17..8b13789 100644
--- a/src/elisa_client_api/__init__.py
+++ b/src/elisa_client_api/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.0.0"
+