diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 1f852d6..fe84bcb 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ include COPYING.txt
 include README.rst
 include CONTRIBUTORS.rst
 include overviewer.py
+include sample.settings.py
 recursive-include contrib/ *.py
 recursive-include overviewer_core/*.py
 recursive-include overviewer_core/src/ *.c *.h
diff --git a/overviewer.py b/overviewer.py
index 3a0cb44..18b085e 100755
--- a/overviewer.py
+++ b/overviewer.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ try:
     from overviewer_core import c_overviewer
 except ImportError:
     ## try to find the build extension
-    ext = os.path.join(this_dir, "c_overviewer.%s" % ("pyd" if platform.system() == "Windows" else "so"))
+    ext = os.path.join(this_dir, "overviewer_core", "c_overviewer.%s" % ("pyd" if platform.system() == "Windows" else "so"))
     if os.path.exists(ext):
         print "Something has gone wrong importing the c_overviewer extension.  Please"
         print "make sure it is up-to-date (clean and rebuild)"
@@ -113,13 +113,14 @@ def main():
 
 
     if options.version:
-        print "Minecraft-Overviewer"
-        print "Git version: %s" % util.findGitVersion()
         try:
             import overviewer_core.overviewer_version as overviewer_version
+            print "Minecraft-Overviewer %s" % overviewer_version.VERSION
+            print "Git commit: %s" % overviewer_version.HASH
             print "built on %s" % overviewer_version.BUILD_DATE
             print "Build machine: %s %s" % (overviewer_version.BUILD_PLATFORM, overviewer_version.BUILD_OS)
         except:
+            print "version info not found"
             pass
         sys.exit(0)
     
diff --git a/overviewer_core/googlemap.py b/overviewer_core/googlemap.py
index 44fadff..8edb0a3 100644
--- a/overviewer_core/googlemap.py
+++ b/overviewer_core/googlemap.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import json
 
 import util
 from c_overviewer import get_render_mode_inheritance
+import overviewer_version
 
 """
 This module has routines related to generating a Google Maps-based
@@ -132,7 +133,8 @@ class MapGen(object):
         index = open(indexpath, 'r').read()
         index = index.replace(
                 "{time}", str(strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", gmtime())))
-        index = index.replace("{version}", util.findGitVersion())
+        versionstr = "%s (%s)" % (overviewer_version.VERSION, overviewer_version.HASH[:7])
+        index = index.replace("{version}", versionstr)
 
         with open(os.path.join(self.destdir, "index.html"), 'w') as output:
             output.write(index)
diff --git a/overviewer_core/util.py b/overviewer_core/util.py
index 2da93ed..2bd15b5 100644
--- a/overviewer_core/util.py
+++ b/overviewer_core/util.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import imp
 import os
 import os.path
 import sys
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 
 def get_program_path():
     if hasattr(sys, "frozen") or imp.is_frozen("__main__"):
@@ -34,8 +35,8 @@ def get_program_path():
             return os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])
 
 
-
-def findGitVersion():
+# does not require git, very likely to work everywhere
+def findGitHash():
     this_dir = get_program_path()
     if os.path.exists(os.path.join(this_dir,".git")):
         with open(os.path.join(this_dir,".git","HEAD")) as f:
@@ -48,6 +49,24 @@ def findGitVersion():
         else:
             return data
     else:
+        try:
+            import overviewer_version
+            return overviewer_version.HASH
+        except:
+            return "unknown"
+
+def findGitVersion():
+    try:
+        p = Popen(['git', 'describe', '--tags'], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
+        p.stderr.close()
+        line = p.stdout.readlines()[0]
+        if line.startswith('release-'):
+            line = line.split('-', 1)[1]
+        # turn 0.1.2-50-somehash into 0.1.2-50
+        # and 0.1.3 into 0.1.3
+        line = '-'.join(line.split('-', 2)[:2])
+        return line.strip()
+    except:
         try:
             import overviewer_version
             return overviewer_version.VERSION
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cb4e4a8..675b222 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import os, os.path
 import glob
 import platform
 import time
+import overviewer_core.util as util
 
 try:
     import py2exe
@@ -28,11 +29,21 @@ setup_kwargs['options'] = {}
 # metadata
 #
 
+# Utility function to read the README file.  
+# Used for the long_description.  It's nice, because now 1) we have a top level
+# README file and 2) it's easier to type in the README file than to put a raw
+# string in below ...
+def read(fname):
+    return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
+
 setup_kwargs['name'] = 'Minecraft-Overviewer'
-setup_kwargs['version'] = '0.0.0' # TODO useful version
+setup_kwargs['version'] = util.findGitVersion()
+setup_kwargs['description'] = 'Generates large resolution images of a Minecraft map.'
+setup_kwargs['url'] = 'http://overviewer.org/'
 setup_kwargs['author'] = 'Andrew Brown'
 setup_kwargs['author_email'] = 'brownan@gmail.com'
-setup_kwargs['url'] = 'http://overviewer.org/'
+setup_kwargs['license'] = 'GNU General Public License v3'
+setup_kwargs['long_description'] = read('README.rst')
 
 #
 # py2exe options
@@ -130,9 +141,9 @@ class CustomClean(clean):
 
 def generate_version_py():
     try:
-        import overviewer_core.util as util
         outstr = ""
         outstr += "VERSION=%r\n" % util.findGitVersion()
+        outstr += "HASH=%r\n" % util.findGitHash()
         outstr += "BUILD_DATE=%r\n" % time.asctime()
         outstr += "BUILD_PLATFORM=%r\n" % platform.processor()
         outstr += "BUILD_OS=%r\n" % platform.platform()
@@ -153,6 +164,7 @@ class CustomBuild(build):
         # generate the version file
         generate_version_py()
         build.run(self)
+        print "\nBuild Complete"
 
 class CustomBuildExt(build_ext):
     def build_extensions(self):
@@ -177,5 +189,3 @@ setup_kwargs['cmdclass']['build_ext'] = CustomBuildExt
 
 setup(**setup_kwargs)
 
-
-print "\nBuild Complete"