diff --git a/.github/workflows/readme.yml b/.github/workflows/readme.yml
index b3a4413..5f8ba53 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/readme.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/readme.yml
@@ -22,5 +22,6 @@ jobs:
       run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           python -m pip install invoke rundoc .
+          python -m pip install tomli
     - name: Run the README.md
       run: invoke readme
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index 0205c61..08a98bb 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -219,9 +219,9 @@ This will perform the following actions:
 2. Bump the current version to the next release candidate, ``X.Y.Z.dev(N+1)``
 
 After this is done, the new pre-release can be installed by including the ``dev`` section in the
-dependency specification, either in ``setup.py``::
+dependency specification, either in ``pyproject.toml``::
 
-    install_requires = [
+    dependencies = [
         ...
         'deepecho>=X.Y.Z.dev',
         ...
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4ad3db9..91774e7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ test = [
     'pytest-rerunfailures>=9.0.0,<10',
     'jupyter>=1.0.0,<2',
     'rundoc>=0.4.3,<0.5',
+    'tomli>=2.0.0,<3',
 ]
 dev = [
     'deepecho[test]',
diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
index 5f9190d..91c3bce 100644
--- a/tasks.py
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 import inspect
 import operator
 import os
-import re
-import pkg_resources
-import platform
 import shutil
 import stat
+import sys
 from pathlib import Path
 
+import tomli
 from invoke import task
-
+from packaging.requirements import Requirement
+from packaging.version import Version
 
 COMPARISONS = {
     '>=': operator.ge,
@@ -39,49 +39,45 @@ def unit(c):
     c.run('python -m pytest ./tests/unit --reruns 3')
 
 
-def _validate_python_version(line):
-    is_valid = True
-    for python_version_match in re.finditer(r"python_version(<=?|>=?|==)\'(\d\.?)+\'", line):
-        python_version = python_version_match.group(0)
-        comparison = re.search(r'(>=?|<=?|==)', python_version).group(0)
-        version_number = python_version.split(comparison)[-1].replace("'", "")
-        comparison_function = COMPARISONS[comparison]
-        is_valid = is_valid and comparison_function(
-            pkg_resources.parse_version(platform.python_version()),
-            pkg_resources.parse_version(version_number),
-        )
+def _get_minimum_versions(dependencies, python_version):
+    min_versions = {}
+    for dependency in dependencies:
+        if '@' in dependency:
+            name, url = dependency.split(' @ ')
+            min_versions[name] = f'{name} @ {url}'
+            continue
+
+        req = Requirement(dependency)
+        if ';' in dependency:
+            marker = req.marker
+            if marker and not marker.evaluate({'python_version': python_version}):
+                continue  # Skip this dependency if the marker does not apply to the current Python version
+
+        if req.name not in min_versions:
+            min_version = next((spec.version for spec in req.specifier if spec.operator in ('>=', '==')), None)
+            if min_version:
+                min_versions[req.name] = f'{req.name}=={min_version}'
 
-    return is_valid
+        elif '@' not in min_versions[req.name]:
+            existing_version = Version(min_versions[req.name].split('==')[1])
+            new_version = next((spec.version for spec in req.specifier if spec.operator in ('>=', '==')), existing_version)
+            if new_version > existing_version:
+                min_versions[req.name] = f'{req.name}=={new_version}'  # Change when a valid newer version is found
+
+    return list(min_versions.values())
 
 
 @task
 def install_minimum(c):
-    with open('pyproject.toml', 'r') as pyproject:
-        lines = pyproject.read().splitlines()
-
-    versions = []
-    started = False
-    for line in lines:
-        if started:
-            if line == ']':
-                started = False
-                continue
-
-            line = line.strip()
-            if _validate_python_version(line):
-                requirement = re.match(r'[^>]*', line).group(0)
-                requirement = re.sub(r"""['",]""", '', requirement)
-                version = re.search(r'>=?(\d\.?)+\w*', line).group(0)
-                if version:
-                    version = re.sub(r'>=?', '==', version)
-                    version = re.sub(r"""['",]""", '', version)
-                    requirement += version
-                versions.append(requirement)
-
-        elif (line.startswith('dependencies = [')):
-            started = True
-
-    c.run(f'python -m pip install {" ".join(versions)}')
+    with open('pyproject.toml', 'rb') as pyproject_file:
+        pyproject_data = tomli.load(pyproject_file)
+
+    dependencies = pyproject_data.get('project', {}).get('dependencies', [])
+    python_version = '.'.join(map(str, sys.version_info[:2]))
+    minimum_versions = _get_minimum_versions(dependencies, python_version)
+
+    if minimum_versions:
+        c.run(f'python -m pip install {" ".join(minimum_versions)}')
 
 
 @task