diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c9a9a4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ['setuptools']
+build-backend = 'setuptools.build_meta'
+
+[project]
+name = 'dotdrop'
+description = 'Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere'
+readme = 'README.md'
+authors = [ {name = 'deadc0de6', email = 'deadc0de6@foo.bar'}, ]
+license = 'GPL-3.0'
+requires-python = ">=3"
+classifiers = [
+    'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
+]
+keywords = ['dotfiles', 'jinja2']
+dependencies = [
+    'Jinja2',
+    'distro',
+    'docopt-ng',
+    'packaging',
+    'python-magic',
+    'requests',
+    'ruamel.yaml',
+    'tomli; python_version < "3.11"',
+    'tomli_w',
+]
+dynamic = ['version']
+
+[project.urls]
+Documentation = 'https://dotdrop.readthedocs.io'
+Repository = 'https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop'
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+dev = ['check-manifest']
+test = ['coverage', 'pytest', 'pytest-cov']
+
+[project.scripts]
+dotdrop = 'dotdrop:main'
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = {attr = 'dotdrop.version.__version__'}
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ['dotdrop']
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fbf5c7..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-"""setup.py"""
-from os import path
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-from dotdrop.version import __version__ as VERSION
-
-
-README = 'README.md'
-here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
-
-
-def read_readme(readme_path):
-    """read readme content"""
-    with open(readme_path, encoding="utf-8") as file:
-        return file.read()
-
-
-REQUIRES_PYTHON = '>=3'
-URL = f'https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop/archive/v{VERSION}.tar.gz'
-
-setup(
-    name='dotdrop',
-    version=VERSION,
-
-    description='Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere',
-    long_description=read_readme(README),
-    long_description_content_type="text/markdown; variant=GFM",
-    url='https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop',
-    download_url=URL,
-    options={"bdist_wheel": {"python_tag": "py3"}},
-    # include anything from MANIFEST.in
-    include_package_data=True,
-
-    author='deadc0de6',
-    author_email='deadc0de6@foo.bar',
-
-    license='GPLv3',
-    python_requires=REQUIRES_PYTHON,
-    classifiers=[
-            'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
-            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
-            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
-            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
-            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
-            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
-            'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)',
-          ],
-
-    keywords='dotfiles jinja2',
-    packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests*']),
-    install_requires=[
-        'docopt-ng', 'Jinja2', 'ruamel.yaml',
-        'python-magic', 'packaging', 'requests',
-        'tomli; python_version < "3.11"',
-        'tomli_w', 'distro'],
-
-    extras_require={
-        'dev': ['check-manifest'],
-        'test': ['coverage', 'pytest', 'pytest-cov'],
-    },
-
-    entry_points={
-        'console_scripts': [
-            'dotdrop=dotdrop:main',
-        ],
-    },
-)