diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 2620ede630..70a5eb3cba 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+v8.0.0
+======
+
+- :issue:`231` via :pr:`232`: Remove custom setup.cfg
+  parser handling, allowing the project (including sdist)
+  to build/run on setuptools 41.4. Now building cheroot
+  requires setuptools 30.3 or later (for declarative
+  config support) and preferably 34.4 or later (as
+  indicated in pyproject.toml).
+
 v7.0.0
 ======
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3d05487bb1..22e9bf3af5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,138 +1,8 @@
-#! /usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
 """Cheroot package setuptools installer."""
 
 import setuptools
 
-
-try:
-    from setuptools.config import read_configuration, ConfigOptionsHandler
-    import setuptools.config
-    import setuptools.dist
-
-    # Set default value for 'use_scm_version'
-    setattr(setuptools.dist.Distribution, 'use_scm_version', False)
-
-    # Attach bool parser to 'use_scm_version' option
-    class ShimConfigOptionsHandler(ConfigOptionsHandler):
-        """Extension class for ConfigOptionsHandler."""
-
-        @property
-        def parsers(self):
-            """Return an option mapping with default data type parsers."""
-            _orig_parsers = super(ShimConfigOptionsHandler, self).parsers
-            return dict(use_scm_version=self._parse_bool, **_orig_parsers)
-
-    setuptools.config.ConfigOptionsHandler = ShimConfigOptionsHandler
-except ImportError:
-    """This is a shim for setuptools<30.3."""
-    import io
-    import json
-
-    try:
-        from configparser import ConfigParser, NoSectionError
-    except ImportError:
-        from ConfigParser import ConfigParser, NoSectionError
-        ConfigParser.read_file = ConfigParser.readfp
-
-    def maybe_read_files(d):
-        """Read files if the string starts with `file:` marker."""
-        d = d.strip()
-        if not d.startswith('file:'):
-            return d
-        descs = []
-        for fname in map(str.strip, d[5:].split(',')):
-            with io.open(fname, encoding='utf-8') as f:
-                descs.append(f.read())
-        return ''.join(descs)
-
-    def cfg_val_to_list(v):
-        """Turn config val to list and filter out empty lines."""
-        return list(filter(bool, map(str.strip, v.strip().splitlines())))
-
-    def cfg_val_to_dict(v):
-        """Turn config val to dict and filter out empty lines."""
-        return dict(
-            map(
-                lambda l: list(map(str.strip, l.split('=', 1))),
-                filter(bool, map(str.strip, v.strip().splitlines())),
-            ),
-        )
-
-    def cfg_val_to_primitive(v):
-        """Parse primitive config val to appropriate data type."""
-        return json.loads(v.strip().lower())
-
-    def read_configuration(filepath):
-        """Read metadata and options from setup.cfg located at filepath."""
-        cfg = ConfigParser()
-        with io.open(filepath, encoding='utf-8') as f:
-            cfg.read_file(f)
-
-        md = dict(cfg.items('metadata'))
-        for list_key in 'classifiers', 'keywords':
-            try:
-                md[list_key] = cfg_val_to_list(md[list_key])
-            except KeyError:
-                pass
-        try:
-            md['long_description'] = maybe_read_files(md['long_description'])
-        except KeyError:
-            pass
-        opt = dict(cfg.items('options'))
-        for list_key in 'use_scm_version', 'zip_safe':
-            try:
-                opt[list_key] = cfg_val_to_primitive(opt[list_key])
-            except KeyError:
-                pass
-        for list_key in 'scripts', 'install_requires', 'setup_requires':
-            try:
-                opt[list_key] = cfg_val_to_list(opt[list_key])
-            except KeyError:
-                pass
-        try:
-            opt['package_dir'] = cfg_val_to_dict(opt['package_dir'])
-        except KeyError:
-            pass
-        opt_package_data = dict(cfg.items('options.package_data'))
-        try:
-            if not opt_package_data.get('', '').strip():
-                opt_package_data[''] = opt_package_data['*']
-                del opt_package_data['*']
-        except KeyError:
-            pass
-        try:
-            opt_extras_require = dict(cfg.items('options.extras_require'))
-            opt['extras_require'] = {}
-            for k, v in opt_extras_require.items():
-                opt['extras_require'][k] = cfg_val_to_list(v)
-        except NoSectionError:
-            pass
-        opt['package_data'] = {}
-        for k, v in opt_package_data.items():
-            opt['package_data'][k] = cfg_val_to_list(v)
-        cur_pkgs = opt.get('packages', '').strip()
-        if '\n' in cur_pkgs:
-            opt['packages'] = cfg_val_to_list(opt['packages'])
-        elif cur_pkgs.startswith('find:'):
-            opt_packages_find = dict(cfg.items('options.packages.find'))
-            opt['packages'] = setuptools.find_packages(**opt_packages_find)
-        return {'metadata': md, 'options': opt}
-
-
-setup_params = {}
-declarative_setup_params = read_configuration('setup.cfg')
-
-# Patch incorrectly decoded package_dir option
-# ``egg_info`` demands native strings failing with unicode under Python 2
-# Ref https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1136
-if 'package_dir' in declarative_setup_params['options']:
-    declarative_setup_params['options']['package_dir'] = {
-        str(k): str(v)
-        for k, v in declarative_setup_params['options']['package_dir'].items()
-    }
-
-setup_params = dict(setup_params, **declarative_setup_params['metadata'])
-setup_params = dict(setup_params, **declarative_setup_params['options'])
-
-
-__name__ == '__main__' and setuptools.setup(**setup_params)
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    setuptools.setup(use_scm_version=True)