diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index ba10c6d..a3934a1 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ Revision history for Perl extension DBD::SQLite.
     - added TODO to show which issues are to be fixed. (ISHIGAKI)
     - license and configure_requires in Makefile.PL and META.yml (Alexandr Ciornii)
     - Spelling check for SQLite.pm (Alexandr Ciornii)
-
-1.18 skipped
-
-1.17 skipped
+    - Adding arbitrary Perl 5.005 minimum
 
 1.16 abandoned
 
diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
deleted file mode 100644
index eeda6ba..0000000
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,140 +0,0 @@
-alter.c
-analyze.c
-attach.c
-auth.c
-bitvec.c
-btmutex.c
-btree.c
-btree.h
-btreeInt.h
-build.c
-callback.c
-Changes
-complete.c
-date.c
-dbdimp.c
-dbdimp.h
-delete.c
-expr.c
-fault.c
-fts3.c
-fts3.h
-fts3_expr.c
-fts3_expr.h
-fts3_hash.c
-fts3_hash.h
-fts3_icu.c
-fts3_porter.c
-fts3_tokenizer.c
-fts3_tokenizer.h
-fts3_tokenizer1.c
-func.c
-getsqlite.pl
-global.c
-hash.c
-hash.h
-hwtime.h
-insert.c
-journal.c
-keywordhash.h
-legacy.c
-lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
-loadext.c
-main.c
-Makefile.PL
-malloc.c
-MANIFEST			This list of files
-MANIFEST.SKIP
-mem0.c
-mem1.c
-mem2.c
-mem3.c
-mem5.c
-memjournal.c
-META.yml
-mutex.c
-mutex.h
-mutex_noop.c
-mutex_os2.c
-mutex_unix.c
-mutex_w32.c
-opcodes.c
-opcodes.h
-os.c
-os.h
-os_common.h
-os_os2.c
-os_unix.c
-os_win.c
-pager.c
-pager.h
-parse.c
-parse.h
-pcache.c
-pcache.h
-pcache1.c
-ppport.h
-pragma.c
-prepare.c
-printf.c
-random.c
-README
-resolve.c
-rowset.c
-select.c
-shell.c
-SQLite.xs
-sqlite3.h
-sqlite3ext.h
-sqliteInt.h
-sqliteLimit.h
-SQLiteXS.h
-status.c
-t/00basic.t
-t/01logon.t
-t/02cr_table.t
-t/03insert.t
-t/04select.t
-t/05tran.t
-t/06error.t
-t/07busy.t
-t/08create_function.t
-t/09create_aggregate.t
-t/10dsnlist.t
-t/11unicode.t
-t/20createdrop.t
-t/30insertfetch.t
-t/40bindparam.t
-t/40blobs.t
-t/40blobtext.t
-t/40listfields.t
-t/40nulls.t
-t/40numrows.t
-t/40prepcached.t
-t/50chopblanks.t
-t/50commit.t
-t/60metadata.t
-t/70schemachange.t
-t/90cppcomments.t
-t/99cleanup.t
-t/ak-dbd.t
-t/dbdadmin.t
-t/lib.pl
-t/SQLite.dbtest
-table.c
-tokenize.c
-trigger.c
-update.c
-utf.c
-util.c
-vacuum.c
-vdbe.c
-vdbe.h
-vdbeapi.c
-vdbeaux.c
-vdbeblob.c
-vdbeInt.h
-vdbemem.c
-vtab.c
-walker.c
-where.c
diff --git a/META.yml b/META.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 21f0363..0000000
--- a/META.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- #YAML:1.0
-name:               DBD-SQLite
-version:            1.15
-abstract:           ~
-author:  []
-license:            perl
-distribution_type:  module
-configure_requires:
-    DBI:                  1.21
-    ExtUtils::MakeMaker:  0
-requires:
-    DBI:  1.21
-no_index:
-    directory:
-        - t
-        - inc
-generated_by:       ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.48
-meta-spec:
-    url:      http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.4.html
-    version:  1.4
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 6678927..d6329f4 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+use 5.005;
 use strict;
 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
 use Config;
@@ -144,13 +145,23 @@ unless ( $Config{usethreads} ) {
 WriteMakefile(
 	NAME         => 'DBD::SQLite',
 	VERSION_FROM => 'lib/DBD/SQLite.pm',
-	PREREQ_PM    => { DBI => 1.21, },
-	($ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION ge '6.46'? 
-	  ('LICENSE'		=> 'perl',
-	   'META_MERGE'		=> {'configure_requires'=>{DBI => 1.21,}}, ) : ()),
+	PREREQ_PM    => {
+		'DBI'        => 1.21,
+		'Test::More' => '0.42',
+	},
+	($ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION ge '6.46'? (
+		'LICENSE'    => 'perl',
+		'META_MERGE' => {
+			'configure_requires' => {
+				DBI => 1.21,
+			},
+		},
+	) : ()),
 	OBJECT       => ( $force_local ? '$(O_FILES)' : 'SQLite.o dbdimp.o' ),
 	OPTIMIZE     => '-O2',
-	clean        => { FILES => 'SQLite.xsi config.h tv.log output' },
+	clean        => {
+		FILES => 'SQLite.xsi config.h tv.log output',
+	},
 	PL_FILES     => {},
 	EXE_FILES    => [],
 	INC          => join( ' ', @CC_INC    ),
diff --git a/README b/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 97ee1e6..0000000
--- a/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-DBD::SQLite
-===========
-
-SQLite is a small fast embedded SQL database engine.
-
-DBD::SQLite embeds that database engine into a DBD driver, so
-if you want a relational database for your project, but don't
-want to install a large RDBMS system like MySQL or PostgreSQL,
-then DBD::SQLite may be just what you need.
-
-It supports quite a lot of features, such as transactions (atomic
-commit and rollback), indexes, DBA-free operation, a large subset
-of SQL92 supported, and more.
-
-Installation requires a compiler.
-
-The engine is very fast, but for updates/inserts/dml it does
-perform a global lock on the entire database. This, obviously,
-might not be good for multiple user systems. So beware. The
-database also appears to be significantly faster if your
-transactions are coarse. One performance benchmark I did was
-inserting 100_000 rows into the database - with AutoCommit
-on it was doing about 50 rows per second. When I turned AutoCommit
-off it went up to 1000 rows per second.
-
-This module is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself, and
-is copyright Matt Sergeant, 2002.
-
-The underlying SQLite database engine is copyright free.
-
diff --git a/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm b/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
index 1c536cf..abd9ccc 100644
--- a/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
+++ b/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package DBD::SQLite;
 
+use 5.005;
 use strict;
 use DBI;
 use DynaLoader();