diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index f9cf2e5..3dec71f 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,24 +1,17 @@
-include setup.py
 include README.md
 include LICENSE
 include *.txt
-include MANIFEST.in
 
 # All source files
 recursive-include rdatasets *
 
-# Add build and testing tools
-include pytest.ini
-
 # Exclude what we don't want to include
-prune build
-prune dist
-prune doc/build
-prune util
-prune */__pycache__
-prune rdatasets_orig
-prune convertCSVtoPickle.py
-prune convertHTMLtoPickle.py
-
-global-exclude *.py[cod] *.egg *.egg-info
-global-exclude *~ *.bak *.swp
+exclude .gitignore
+exclude .gitmodules
+exclude .pre-commit-config.yaml
+exclude .flake8
+recursive-exclude */__pycache__
+recursive-exclude * *.py[co]
+prune rdatasets_orig/
+exclude convertCSVtoPickle.py
+exclude convertHTMLtoPickle.py
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 61a93ff..27a1899 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=45", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"]
+requires = ["setuptools >=61", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.setuptools]
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ classifiers=[
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
     'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
 ]
-
 dynamic=["version"]
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
diff --git a/rdatasets/__init__.py b/rdatasets/__init__.py
index 6dc3c36..ccd1754 100644
--- a/rdatasets/__init__.py
+++ b/rdatasets/__init__.py
@@ -5,4 +5,17 @@
 from .rdatasets import data, descr, get_data_path, items, packages, summary
 
 
-__all__ = ['packages', 'items', 'data', 'get_data_path', 'descr', 'summary']
+__all__ = [
+    'packages',
+    'items',
+    'data',
+    'get_data_path',
+    'descr',
+    'summary',
+    '__version__',
+]
+
+try:
+    from ._version import version as __version__
+except ImportError:
+    __version__ = "unknown"