diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5f632e1..235249d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,13 @@ keywords = [
     "HGVS",
     "variation"
 ]
-dynamic = ["version"]
+dynamic = ["version", "optional-dependencies"]
+
+dependencies = [
+    "attrs",
+    "requests",
+    "urllib3~=1.26",
+]
 
 [project.urls]
 "Homepage" = "https://github.com/biocommons/bioutils"
@@ -32,8 +38,8 @@ dynamic = ["version"]
 
 [build-system]
 requires = [
-	 "setuptools >= 65.3",
-   	 "setuptools_scm[toml] ~= 7.0"
+	 "setuptools >= 69.0",
+   	 "setuptools_scm[toml] >= 8.0"
 	 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 77531d5..b6ecf23 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+[metadata]
+name = bioutils
+
 [options]
 include_package_data = True
 packages = find_namespace:
@@ -5,12 +8,6 @@ package_dir =
     = src
 zip_safe = True
 
-install_requires =
-    attrs
-    requests
-    urllib3~=1.26
-
-
 [options.entry_points]
 #console_scripts =
 #    marvin-quote = biocommons.example.__main__:main