old_contents: import sys
  import os
  from setuptools import setup
  
  # If you change this version, change it also in docs/conf.py
  version = "1.0.1"
  
  doc_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "docs")
  index_filename = os.path.join(doc_dir, "index.txt")
  news_filename = os.path.join(doc_dir, "news.txt")
  long_description = """
  
  The main website for pip is `www.pip-installer.org
  <http://www.pip-installer.org>`_.  You can also install
  the `in-development version <https://github.com/pypa/pip/tarball/develop#egg=pip-dev>`_
  of pip with ``easy_install pip==dev``.
  
  """
  f = open(index_filename)
  # remove the toctree from sphinx index, as it breaks long_description
  parts = f.read().split("split here", 2)
  long_description = parts[0] + long_description + parts[2]
  f.close()
  f = open(news_filename)
  long_description += "\n\n" + f.read()
  f.close()
  
  setup(name="pip",
        version=version,
        description="pip installs packages. Python packages. An easy_install replacement",
        long_description=long_description,
        classifiers=[
          'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
          'Intended Audience :: Developers',
          'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
          'Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
        ],
        keywords='easy_install distutils setuptools egg virtualenv',
        author='The pip developers',
        author_email='python-virtualenv@groups.google.com',
        url='http://www.pip-installer.org',
        license='MIT',
        packages=['pip', 'pip.commands', 'pip.vcs'],
        entry_points=dict(console_scripts=['pip=pip:main', 'pip-%s=pip:main' % sys.version[:3]]),
        test_suite='nose.collector',
        tests_require=['nose', 'virtualenv>=1.6', 'scripttest>=1.1.1', 'mock'],
        zip_safe=False)
  
new_contents: import sys
  import os
  from setuptools import setup
  
  # If you change this version, change it also in docs/conf.py
  version = "1.0.1"
  
  doc_dir = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), "docs")
  index_filename = os.path.join(doc_dir, "index.txt")
  news_filename = os.path.join(doc_dir, "news.txt")
  long_description = """
  
  The main website for pip is `www.pip-installer.org
  <http://www.pip-installer.org>`_.  You can also install
  the `in-development version <https://github.com/pypa/pip/tarball/develop#egg=pip-dev>`_
  of pip with ``easy_install pip==dev``.
  
  """
  f = open(index_filename)
  # remove the toctree from sphinx index, as it breaks long_description
  parts = f.read().split("split here", 2)
  long_description = parts[0] + long_description + parts[2]
  f.close()
  f = open(news_filename)
  long_description += "\n\n" + f.read()
  f.close()
  
  setup(name="pip",
        version=version,
        description="pip installs packages. Python packages. An easy_install replacement",
        long_description=long_description,
        classifiers=[
          'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
          'Intended Audience :: Developers',
          'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
          'Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
        ],
        keywords='easy_install distutils setuptools egg virtualenv',
        author='The pip developers',
        author_email='python-virtualenv@groups.google.com',
        url='http://www.pip-installer.org',
        license='MIT',
        packages=['pip', 'pip.commands', 'pip.vcs'],
        entry_points=dict(console_scripts=['pip=pip:main', 'pip-%s=pip:main' % sys.version[:3]]),
        test_suite='nose.collector',
        tests_require=['nose', 'virtualenv>=1.6', 'scripttest>=1.1.1', 'mock'],
        zip_safe=False)
  
subject: Use absolute path to docs dir. Fixes issue #279.