diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-test-with-style.yml b/.github/workflows/python-test-with-style.yml
index 4c2764b244..e503f1636c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-test-with-style.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-test-with-style.yml
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-    - name: Python dependencies
-      run: |
-        pip install -r requirements.txt
-        pip install -r requirements-test.txt
     - name: Python test
       env:
         CC: ${{ matrix.compiler }}
@@ -35,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
         make info
         make -j2
         export CEED_DIR=$PWD
-        pip install .
+        pip install '.[test]'
         cd python/tests
         PYTHON=python3 make test TEST_OPTS="--ceed /cpu/self/ref/serial -vv"
         cd ../../examples/python
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ccdfc350ef..05c05d3ef6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=40.8.0", "wheel", "cffi"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=77.0.0", "wheel", "cffi>=1.0.0"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.autopep8]
 max_line_length = 80
 
 [tool.cibuildwheel]
-build-verbosity = "1"
+build-verbosity = 1
 test-requires = ["pytest"]
 test-command = "bash {project}/python/test-wheel.sh {project}"
 skip = "cp36-* cp37-* pp37-* *-manylinux_i686 *_ppc64le *_s390x *-musllinux*"
@@ -14,3 +14,59 @@ skip = "cp36-* cp37-* pp37-* *-manylinux_i686 *_ppc64le *_s390x *-musllinux*"
 [tool.cibuildwheel.linux]
 manylinux-x86_64-image = "manylinux2014"
 manylinux-aarch64-image = "manylinux2014"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+package-dir = { "libceed" = "python" }
+include-package-data = true
+platforms = ["POSIX"]
+
+[project]
+name="libceed"
+description="libCEED: Code for Efficient Extensible Discretization"
+authors = [
+  {name="libCEED Team", email="ceed-users@llnl.gov"}
+]
+readme = "python/README.md"
+license = "BSD-2-Clause"
+license-files = ["LICENSE"]
+dependencies = [
+  "cffi>=1.0.0",
+  "numpy"
+]
+classifiers = [
+  "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+  "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+  "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+  "Operating System :: POSIX",
+  "Programming Language :: C",
+  "Programming Language :: C++",
+  "Programming Language :: Fortran",
+  "Programming Language :: Python",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
+  "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
+  "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries",
+]
+keywords = ["libCEED"]
+dynamic = [
+  "version"
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://libceed.org"
+Download = "https://github.com/CEED/libCEED/releases"
+Repository = "https://github.com/CEED/libCEED"
+Documentation = "https://libceed.org"
+Issues = "https://github.com/CEED/libCEED/issues"
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+cuda = ['numba']
+test = [
+  'autopep8',
+  'pytest',
+  'setuptools',
+  'vermin',
+]
diff --git a/python/README.md b/python/README.md
index a6e8d0df2e..2b404132ff 100644
--- a/python/README.md
+++ b/python/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-# libCEED for Python
+# libCEED: Code for Efficient Extensible Discretization
+
+libCEED is a lightweight library for expressing and manipulating operators that arise in high-order element-based discretization of partial differential equations.
+libCEED's representations are much for efficient than assembled sparse matrices, and can achieve very high performance on modern CPU and GPU hardware.
+This approach is applicable to a broad range of linear and nonlinear problems, and includes facilities for preconditioning.
+libCEED is meant to be easy to incorporate into existing libraries and applications, and to build new tools on top of.
+
+libCEED has been developed as part of the DOE Exascale Computing Project
+co-design Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED).
 
 ## Install
 
diff --git a/requirements-gpu.txt b/requirements-gpu.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index c3db4451e8..0000000000
--- a/requirements-gpu.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-numba
diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 612fd38d56..0000000000
--- a/requirements-test.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-autopep8
-pytest
-setuptools
-vermin
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 180d4b48b3..0000000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-cffi
-numpy
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a2bb813e59..c19a9341d7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # testbed platforms, in support of the nation"s exascale computing imperative.
 # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module,import-error,unused-variable
 import os
-from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools import setup, Extension
 from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -30,11 +30,6 @@ def version():
     return ceed_version[0]
 
 
-def requirements():
-    with open('requirements.txt') as f:
-        return f.readlines()
-
-
 class libceed_build_ext(build_ext):
     def run(self):
         prefix = os.path.join(self.build_lib, 'libceed')
@@ -58,74 +53,11 @@ def make_libceed_so(self, prefix):
         ])
 
 
-description = """
-libCEED: Code for Efficient Extensible Discretization
-=====================================================
-
-libCEED is a lightweight library for expressing and manipulating operators that
-arise in high-order element-based discretization of partial differential
-equations.  libCEED's representations are much for efficient than assembled
-sparse matrices, and can achieve very high performance on modern CPU and GPU
-hardware.  This approach is applicable to a broad range of linear and nonlinear
-problems, and includes facilities for preconditioning.  libCEED is meant to be
-easy to incorporate into existing libraries and applications, and to build new
-tools on top of.
-
-libCEED has been developed as part of the DOE Exascale Computing Project
-co-design Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED).
-"""
-
-classifiers = """
-Development Status :: 4 - Beta
-Intended Audience :: Developers
-Intended Audience :: Science/Research
-License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
-Operating System :: POSIX
-Programming Language :: C
-Programming Language :: C++
-Programming Language :: Fortran
-Programming Language :: Python
-Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
-Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
-Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
-Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
-Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
-Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
-Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries
-"""
-
-setup(name="libceed",
-      version=version(),
-      description="libCEED: Code for Efficient Extensible Discretization",
-      long_description=description,
-      long_description_content_type='text/x-rst',
-      classifiers=classifiers.split("\n")[1:-1],
-      keywords=["libCEED"],
-      platforms=["POSIX"],
-      license="BSD 2",
-      license_file='LICENSE',
-      url="https://libceed.org",
-      download_url="https://github.com/CEED/libCEED/releases",
-      project_urls={
-          "Bug Tracker": "https://github.com/CEED/libCEED/issues",
-          "Documentation": "https://libceed.org",
-          "Source Code": "https://github.com/CEED/libCEED",
-      },
-      author="libCEED Team",
-      author_email="ceed-users@llnl.gov",
-
-      install_requires=requirements(),
-      packages=["libceed"],
-      package_dir={"libceed": "python"},
-      include_package_data=True,
-
-      setup_requires=["cffi"],
-      cffi_modules=["python/build_ceed_cffi.py:ffibuilder"],
-      cmdclass={'build_ext': libceed_build_ext},
+setup(
+    version=version(),
+    cffi_modules=["python/build_ceed_cffi.py:ffibuilder"],
+    cmdclass={'build_ext': libceed_build_ext},
+)
 
-      extras_require={
-          'cuda': ['numba']
-      },
-      )
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------