diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ca6e061..f38ad5b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
 ]
 dynamic=["version"]
-requires = ["setuptools>=61.2"]
+dependencies = ["setuptools>=61.2"]
 
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f6f8487..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2014-2022, Nucleic
-#
-# Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.
-#
-# The full license is in the file LICENSE, distributed with this software.
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-from setuptools import setup
-
-setup()