diff --git a/nacl/__about__.py b/nacl/__about__.py
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+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+__all__ = [
+    "__title__", "__summary__", "__uri__", "__version__", "__author__",
+    "__email__", "__license__", "__copyright__",
+]
+
+__title__ = "pynacl"
+__summary__ = "Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library"  # nopep8
+__uri__ = "https://github.com/dstufft/pynacl/"
+
+__version__ = "0.1dev1"
+
+__author__ = "Donald Stufft"
+__email__ = "donald@stufft.io"
+
+__license__ = "Simplified BSD"
+__copyright__ = "Copyright 2012 Donald Stufft"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from setuptools import setup
+
+__about__ = {}
+
+with open("nacl/__about__.py") as fp:
+    exec(fp, None, __about__)
+
+
+try:
+    import nacl.nacl
+except ImportError:
+    # installing - there is no cffi yet
+    ext_modules = []
+else:
+    # building bdist - cffi is here!
+    ext_modules = [nacl.nacl.ffi.verifier.get_extension()]
+
+
+setup(
+    name=__about__["__title__"],
+    version=__about__["__version__"],
+
+    description=__about__["__summary__"],
+    long_description=open("README.rst").read(),
+    url=__about__["__uri__"],
+    license=__about__["__license__"],
+
+    author=__about__["__author__"],
+    author_email=__about__["__email__"],
+
+    install_requires=[
+        "cffi",
+    ],
+
+    packages=[
+        "nacl",
+    ],
+
+    ext_package="nacl",
+    ext_modules=ext_modules,
+
+    zip_safe=False,
+)