diff --git a/binaryc_python_utils/__init__.py b/binaryc_python_utils/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index af210810450c012b110a4908382fbf0373f46860..c2e18e3787e0f9849f05a6b1c5d6d7ef71c0e4ec 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-from distutils.core import setup, Extension
+# from distutils.core import setup, Extension
+# from setuptools import find_packages
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages, Extension
 import os
 import subprocess
 import re
@@ -54,12 +56,20 @@ for x in defines:
 API_h = os.environ["BINARY_C"] + "/src/API/binary_c_API.h"
 binary_c_define_macros.extend([("BINARY_C_API_H", API_h)])
 
+
+def readme():
+    with open('README.md') as f:
+        return f.read()
+
+
 setup(
     name="binary_c",
     version="1.0",
     description="This is a python API for binary_c by Rob Izzard and collaborators",
     author="Jeff Andrews and Robert Izzard and David Hendriks",
     author_email="andrews@physics.uoc.gr and r.izzard@surrey.ac.uk and rob.izzard@gmail.com and davidhendriks93@gmail.com",
+    long_description=readme(),
+    url="https://gitlab.eps.surrey.ac.uk/ri0005/binary_c-python",
     license="",
     ext_modules=[
         Extension(