diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f82d816..430e07c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ version = "12.9.0"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "Rust bindings for Icebug graph analytics"
 license = "MIT"
+repository = "https://github.com/Ladybug-Memory/icebug-rust"
+homepage = "https://github.com/Ladybug-Memory/icebug"
+documentation = "https://docs.rs/icebug"
+keywords = ["graph", "analytics", "arrow", "bindings", "networkit"]
+categories = ["api-bindings", "algorithms", "science"]
+include = [
+    "/Cargo.toml",
+    "/README.md",
+    "/build.rs",
+    "/include",
+    "/scripts/download-icebug.sh",
+    "/src",
+    "/tests",
+]
 links = "networkit"
 
 [dependencies]
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index ea75949..e8c5085 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ fn main() {
     let manifest_dir = PathBuf::from(env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").unwrap());
     let icebug_dir = env::var_os("ICEBUG_DIR")
         .map(PathBuf::from)
-        .unwrap_or_else(|| manifest_dir.join("vendor"));
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| default_icebug_dir(&manifest_dir));
 
     println!("cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=ICEBUG_DIR");
     println!("cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=ICEBUG_VERSION");
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ fn ensure_icebug_vendor(manifest_dir: &PathBuf, icebug_dir: &PathBuf) {
     let script = manifest_dir.join("scripts/download-icebug.sh");
     let status = Command::new("bash")
         .arg(script)
+        .env("ICEBUG_VENDOR_DIR", icebug_dir)
         .current_dir(manifest_dir)
         .status()
         .expect("failed to run scripts/download-icebug.sh");
@@ -108,3 +109,11 @@ fn ensure_icebug_vendor(manifest_dir: &PathBuf, icebug_dir: &PathBuf) {
         panic!("scripts/download-icebug.sh failed with status {status}");
     }
 }
+
+fn default_icebug_dir(manifest_dir: &PathBuf) -> PathBuf {
+    if manifest_dir.join(".cargo_vcs_info.json").exists() {
+        PathBuf::from(env::var_os("OUT_DIR").unwrap()).join("icebug")
+    } else {
+        manifest_dir.join("vendor")
+    }
+}
diff --git a/scripts/download-icebug.sh b/scripts/download-icebug.sh
index 91fb823..d55a337 100755
--- a/scripts/download-icebug.sh
+++ b/scripts/download-icebug.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 
 REPO="Ladybug-Memory/icebug"
-VENDOR_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)/vendor"
+VENDOR_DIR="${ICEBUG_VENDOR_DIR:-$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)/vendor}"
 DEFAULT_TAG="12.9"
 
 if [[ "${1:-}" != "" ]]; then