diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9fdad03a..86f60309 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "python-bindings"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
- "outlines-core-rs",
+ "outlines-core",
  "pyo3",
 ]
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4141d637..df4d1a7e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,32 +7,25 @@
 
 ## developing
 
-- build only the outlines-core package `cd outlines-core && cargo build`
-- dev build of python bindings `cd bindings/python && maturin develop`. If you have the conda `outlines-dev` environment activated, the outlines-core module is installed within the env automatically
-
-There's also a [justfile](https://github.com/casey/just) for running these easier:
-
-- `just dev-core`
-- `just dev-python`
-
-# Developer Notes
-
-Setup a virtual environment
+There's a [justfile](https://github.com/casey/just) for most dev & build tasks
 
+- build only the outlines-core rust crate `cd outlines-core && cargo build`
+- install an editable pip package with the recepie `just dev-python` which is:
 ```bash
-uv venv
-source .venv/bin/activate
+cd bindings/python && pip install -e .
 ```
-
-install the python bindings with
-
+- to build the python package, run `just build-python`, which is equivalent to:
 ```bash
-uv pip install bindings/python
+cd bindings/python && \
+ln -sf ../../outlines-core outlines-core-lib && \
+sed -i '' 's|path = "../../outlines-core"|path = "outlines-core-lib"|' Cargo.toml && \
+python -m build && \
+rm outlines-core-lib && \
+sed -i '' 's|path = "outlines-core-lib"|path = "../../outlines-core"|' Cargo.toml
 ```
 
-# Testing
+### Developer Notes
 
-```bash
-python -c "import outlines_core._lib;print(dir(outlines_core._lib))"
-python -c "import outlines_core._lib;print(outlines_core._lib.show_me_the_flag())"
-```
+- Setup a virtual environment before running the build or dev commands
+
+- If you get the `LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version for...` error, set the env var `SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION=0.1.0-dev` before running the build or dev command.
diff --git a/bindings/python/Cargo.toml b/bindings/python/Cargo.toml
index 1c936ccf..a97f9dda 100644
--- a/bindings/python/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bindings/python/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ name = "_lib"
 crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 path = "rust/lib.rs"
 
-[dependencies.outlines-core-rs]
+[dependencies.outlines-core]
 path = "../../outlines-core"
diff --git a/bindings/python/Manifest.in b/bindings/python/Manifest.in
index a4111c30..8b5bea03 100644
--- a/bindings/python/Manifest.in
+++ b/bindings/python/Manifest.in
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-graft python
+graft src 
 graft rust
-graft tests
 include Cargo.toml
+
 global-exclude */__pycache__/*
 global-exclude *.pyc
 
-recursive-include rust *
-recursive-include outlines-core *
+recursive-include outlines-core-lib *
+recursive-exclude outlines-core/target *
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bindings/python/pyproject.toml b/bindings/python/pyproject.toml
index e2eb6fca..356cb06f 100644
--- a/bindings/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/bindings/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "setuptools-rust"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=45", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2", "setuptools-rust"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ repository = "https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines-core/"
 file = "README.md"
 content-type = "text/markdown"
 
+[tool.setuptools]
+packages = ["outlines_core"]
+package-dir = {"" = "src"}
+
 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
 "outlines" = ["py.typed"]
 
@@ -86,7 +90,7 @@ filterwarnings = [
 ]
 
 [tool.mypy]
-exclude = ["examples"]
+exclude=["examples"]
 enable_incomplete_feature = ["Unpack"]
 
 [[tool.mypy.overrides]]
diff --git a/bindings/python/rust/lib.rs b/bindings/python/rust/lib.rs
index cba0a30f..b1bfb828 100644
--- a/bindings/python/rust/lib.rs
+++ b/bindings/python/rust/lib.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use pyo3::{pyfunction, pymodule, wrap_pyfunction, Bound, PyResult};
 
 #[pymodule]
 mod _lib {
-    use outlines_core_rs::FLAG;
+    use outlines_core::FLAG;
     use pyo3::prelude::*;
 
     /// Formats the sum of two numbers as string.
diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index 491a1066..21f1be7a 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -8,4 +8,10 @@ dev-python:
     cd bindings/python && pip install -e .
 
 build-python:
-    cd bindings/python && python -m build
+    cd bindings/python && \
+    ln -sf ../../outlines-core outlines-core-lib && \
+    sed -i '' 's|path = "../../outlines-core"|path = "outlines-core-lib"|' Cargo.toml && \
+    python -m build && \
+    rm outlines-core-lib && \
+    sed -i '' 's|path = "outlines-core-lib"|path = "../../outlines-core"|' Cargo.toml
+