diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9c6508c1a6..b53657dda2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ E. T. Somogyi <sup>1</sup>, M. T. Karlsson <sup>2</sup>, M. Swat <sup>1</sup>, M
 
 libRoadRunner is a high performance and portable simulation engine for systems and synthetic biology.
 
+## Contributing
+
+**IMPORTANT!** Contributors **must** follow the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/sys-bio/roadrunner/wiki). Contibuters are responsible for complying with the guidelines, including (but not limited to) making commits to the correct branch. Maintainers are not responsible for changes made to the wrong branch. Contributors take full responsibility for ensuring that their changes get merged into the develop branch.
+
 ## libRoadRunner supports the following features:
 
 * Time Dependent Simulation (with optional conservation law reduction) using CVODE
diff --git a/wrappers/Python/setup.py b/wrappers/Python/setup.py
index 8d3d5188f0..144114f703 100644
--- a/wrappers/Python/setup.py
+++ b/wrappers/Python/setup.py
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ def _checkRequirements():
 
 # get the os string
 def _getOSString():
-    
-    
+
+
     s = platform.system().lower()
     unix = False
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def _getOSString():
                          .format(s))
 
     arch = platform.architecture()
-    
+
     if unix and arch[0].startswith('64'):
         arch = 'x86_64'
     elif unix and arch[0].startswith('32'):
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def _getOSString():
         arch = '32' #win 32
 
     return s + "_" + arch
-    
+
 _version = _version + "-" + _getOSString()
 
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def _copyDistFiles():
 
     if platform.system().lower().startswith("win"):
         print("copying windows dlls...")
-        
+
         shutil.copyfile("bin/iconv.dll",      "site-packages/roadrunner/iconv.dll")
         shutil.copyfile("bin/msvcp120.dll",   "site-packages/roadrunner/msvcp120.dll")
         shutil.copyfile("bin/msvcr120.dll",   "site-packages/roadrunner/msvcr120.dll")
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ def _copyDistFiles():
     import glob
     for f in glob.glob("*.txt"):
         shutil.copyfile(f, "site-packages/roadrunner/" + f)
-    
-    
-  
+
+
+
 
 
 # custom sdist command to copy different bits
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def setup(*args):
 
     _checkRequirements()
 
-    # may be running in a different dir, temp change dir into 
+    # may be running in a different dir, temp change dir into
     # dir of setup file
     curdir = os.path.abspath(os.getcwd())
 
@@ -137,9 +137,11 @@ def setup(*args):
 
 
     # copy stuff if we are building
-    if len(args) > 0 and args[0].lower().find('dist') >= 0:
-        print ("we're building...")
-        _copyDistFiles()
+    # if len(args) > 0 and args[0].lower().find('dist') >= 0:
+        # print ("we're building...")
+        # _copyDistFiles()
+    # always copy windows dlls
+    _copyDistFiles()
 
     # check if we are running in Mac Spyder, and /Users/andy/local/dist/pylibroadrunner-1.1.1-macosx_x86_64/setup.py
     # called with no args
@@ -164,11 +166,11 @@ def setup(*args):
         },
         package_data={
             # add dll, won't hurt unix, not there anyway
-            "roadrunner" : ["_roadrunner." + _sharedLibExt(), "*.dll", "*.txt" ],  
+            "roadrunner" : ["_roadrunner." + _sharedLibExt(), "*.dll", "*.txt" ],
             "roadrunner.testing" : ["*.xml", "*.txt", "*.dat", "dsmts/*.xml", "dsmts/*.csv", "test_data/*"]
         },
         cmdclass={'sdist' : _RoadRunnerSDist},
-           
+
         # fake out the command line args
         script_name = 'setup.py',
         script_args = args
@@ -178,12 +180,9 @@ def setup(*args):
     print("changeing back to " + curdir)
     os.chdir(curdir)
 
-    
-    
+
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     args = sys.argv[1:]
     setup(*args)
-
-
-