diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c77e2fea..84233615 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,62 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["pdm-backend"]
+build-backend = "pdm.backend"
+
+[project]
+name = "timm"
+authors = [
+    {name = "Ross Wightman", email = "ross@huggingface.co"},
+]
+description = "PyTorch Image Models"
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
+keywords = ["pytorch", "image-classification"]
+license = {text = "Apache-2.0"}
+classifiers = [
+        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
+        'Intended Audience :: Education',
+        'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
+        'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering',
+        'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence',
+        'Topic :: Software Development',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+]
+dependencies = [
+        'torch',
+        'torchvision',
+        'pyyaml',
+        'huggingface_hub',
+        'safetensors',
+]
+dynamic = ["version"]
+
+[project.urls]
+homepage = "https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models"
+documentation = "https://huggingface.co/docs/timm/en/index"
+repository = "https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models"
+
+[tool.pdm.dev-dependencies]
+test = [
+        'pytest',
+        'pytest-timeout',
+        'pytest-xdist',
+        'pytest-forked',
+        'expecttest',
+]
+
+[tool.pdm.version]
+source = "file"
+path = "timm/version.py"
+
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
+testpaths = ['tests']
 markers = [
     "base: marker for model tests using the basic setup",
     "cfg: marker for model tests checking the config",
@@ -6,9 +64,4 @@ markers = [
     "features: marker for model tests checking feature extraction",
     "fxforward: marker for model tests using torch fx (only forward)",
     "fxbackward: marker for model tests using torch fx (only backward)",
-]
-
-[tool.black]
-line-length = 120
-target-version = ['py37', 'py38', 'py39', 'py310', 'py311']
-skip-string-normalization = true
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 6289c6c3..55b106b0 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -3,3 +3,7 @@
 conda_name_differences = 'torch:pytorch'
 channels = pytorch
 noarch = True
+
+[metadata]
+
+url = "https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f5148455..00000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-""" Setup
-"""
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-from codecs import open
-from os import path
-
-here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
-
-# Get the long description from the README file
-with open(path.join(here, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
-    long_description = f.read()
-
-exec(open('timm/version.py').read())
-setup(
-    name='timm',
-    version=__version__,
-    description='PyTorch Image Models',
-    long_description=long_description,
-    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
-    url='https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models',
-    author='Ross Wightman',
-    author_email='ross@huggingface.co',
-    classifiers=[
-        # How mature is this project? Common values are
-        #   3 - Alpha
-        #   4 - Beta
-        #   5 - Production/Stable
-        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
-        'Intended Audience :: Education',
-        'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
-        'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
-        'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering',
-        'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence',
-        'Topic :: Software Development',
-        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
-        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
-    ],
-
-    # Note that this is a string of words separated by whitespace, not a list.
-    keywords='pytorch pretrained models efficientnet mobilenetv3 mnasnet resnet vision transformer vit',
-    packages=find_packages(exclude=['convert', 'tests', 'results']),
-    include_package_data=True,
-    install_requires=['torch >= 1.7', 'torchvision', 'pyyaml', 'huggingface_hub', 'safetensors'],
-    python_requires='>=3.7',
-)
-
diff --git a/timm/version.py b/timm/version.py
index 350de40f..8a2d2f68 100644
--- a/timm/version.py
+++ b/timm/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.9.15dev0'
+__version__ = '0.9.16dev0'