Merge of lone commit and packaging improvements.

This merges the one lone commit from @kmorey, which I think is a good start for improvements to the packaging. I've added a few more changes to `setup.py` and removed the disclaimer from the `README.md`, as it seems that you're investing some time in this?

I don't what the best approach is here, therefore I'll just submit a few pull requests, so that we can maybe consolidate this in your fork?

I want to make some more packaging improvements, including a more or less complete list of contributors and then start on a few tests with my own live database; I'm sure there are still bugs to be found there.