diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 04f196ac7..bb910ebb6 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 include README.md
 include LICENSE
+include requirements.txt
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ba8f903fd..6d606391f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-ws4py
-requests
+ws4py>=0.3.4
+requests>=2.7.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a76f466f1..e687b9d2c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 import re
 
-requirements = [
-  'ws4py',
-  'requests'
-]
+requirements = []
+with open('requirements.txt') as f:
+  requirements = f.read().splitlines()
 
 version = ''
 with open('discord/__init__.py') as f: