diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 98fcc72..d7ffcad 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 *.hdp
 *~
 _build
+_packages/
+registry/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 2d430c2..e69de29 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "ext/http"]
-	path = ext/http
-	url = https://github.com/dylan-lang/http
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index e71a247..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-all: build
-
-.PHONY: build
-
-OPEN_DYLAN_DIR = $(realpath $(dir $(realpath $(shell which dylan-compiler)))/..)
-
-APP_SOURCES = $(wildcard */*.dylan) \
-              $(wildcard */*.lid)
-
-REGISTRIES = `pwd`/registry:`pwd`/ext/http/registry
-
-ifeq (, $(wildcard .git))
-check-submodules:
-else
-check-submodules:
-	@for sms in `git submodule status --recursive | grep -v "^ " | cut -c 1`; do \
-	  if [ "$$sms" != "x" ]; then \
-	    echo "**** ERROR ****"; \
-	    echo "One or more submodules is not up to date."; \
-	    echo "Please run 'git submodule update --init --recursive'."; \
-	    exit 1; \
-	  fi; \
-	done;
-endif
-
-build: $(APP_SOURCES) check-submodules
-	OPEN_DYLAN_USER_REGISTRIES=$(REGISTRIES) dylan-compiler -build web-framework
-
-clean:
-	rm -rf _build/
-
diff --git a/dylan-package.json b/dylan-package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a9ee60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dylan-package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+    "category": "utilities",
+    "contact": "dylan-lang@googlegroups.com",
+    "description": "Web app utilities",
+    "keywords": [ "web" ],
+    "name": "web-framework",
+    "dependencies": [
+	"http@1.1.2"
+    ],
+    "dev-dependencies" : [],
+    "license": "unknown",
+    "url": "https://github.com/dylan-lang/web-framework",
+    "version": "0.1.1"
+}
diff --git a/ext/http b/ext/http
deleted file mode 160000
index e3e1387..0000000
--- a/ext/http
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit e3e1387333e91f08ed2158188e2f7c38448c60e7
diff --git a/registry/generic/web-framework b/registry/generic/web-framework
deleted file mode 100644
index 5aaa285..0000000
--- a/registry/generic/web-framework
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-abstract://dylan/web-framework.lid