diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 8a412e6..0cd230c 100755
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ recursive-include doc/sphinx/source *.txt *.rst *.py
 recursive-include doc/sphinx/sphinxext *.py
 include doc/sphinx/Makefile
 include doc/sphinx/Doxyfile
-include README.txt
+include README.md
 include requirements.txt
 include scripts/obi
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d0d723a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+--extra-index-url https://pypi.python.org/simple/
+Cython>=0.24
+Sphinx>=1.2.0
+ipython>=3.0.0
+breathe>=4.0.0