diff --git a/api/py/.gitignore b/api/py/.gitignore
index 0c0190c6d7..ddf184b451 100644
--- a/api/py/.gitignore
+++ b/api/py/.gitignore
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ __pycache__
 *.onnx
 build
 mobilenet_v2_1.0.onnx.nnef.tgz
+rust-workspace
+dist
 
diff --git a/api/py/MANIFEST.in b/api/py/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ec41f1db1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/py/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+graft rust-workspace
+graft docs
diff --git a/api/py/requirements.txt b/api/py/requirements.txt
index ad35afec1f..77bfb1649e 100644
--- a/api/py/requirements.txt
+++ b/api/py/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-numpy==1.25.2
-setuptools==68.1.2
-setuptools_rust==1.6.0
+numpy==1.26.4
+setuptools==69.1.1
+setuptools_rust==1.9.0
 toml==0.10.2
diff --git a/api/py/setup.py b/api/py/setup.py
index 3ca3a97d42..2baa5f1ab1 100644
--- a/api/py/setup.py
+++ b/api/py/setup.py
@@ -1,9 +1,18 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 from setuptools_rust import Binding, RustExtension
+import shutil
 import toml
 import re
+import os
 
-version = toml.load("../Cargo.toml")["package"]["version"]
+if not os.path.exists("rust-workspace"):
+    shutil.copytree(
+        "../..",
+        "rust-workspace",
+        ignore = shutil.ignore_patterns(".cached", "target", ".git", "issue-*", ".travis", "assets", ".github", "py")
+    )
+
+version = toml.load("rust-workspace/api/Cargo.toml")["package"]["version"]
 version = re.sub("\-alpha\.", "a", version)
 version = re.sub("\-.*", ".dev", version)
 
@@ -38,7 +47,7 @@
             "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
             "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License"
             ],
-        rust_extensions=[RustExtension("tract.tract", binding=Binding.NoBinding, path="../ffi/Cargo.toml")],
+        rust_extensions=[RustExtension("tract.tract", binding=Binding.NoBinding, path="rust-workspace/api/ffi/Cargo.toml")],
         packages=["tract"],
         zip_safe=False,
         python_requires=">=3.7",