diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e820d82..dd0ac37 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 .*.swp
 .*.swo
 greenhouse.egg-info/*
-MANIFEST.in
 build/*
 docs/build/*
 dist/*
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f1cb737
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include setup.py
diff --git a/pavement.py b/pavement.py
deleted file mode 100644
index eb8dbe9..0000000
--- a/pavement.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-from paver.easy import *
-from paver.path import path
-from paver.setuputils import setup
-
-
-VERSION = (2, 1, 4, "")
-
-setup(
-    name="greenhouse",
-    description="An I/O parallelism library making use of coroutines",
-    packages=[
-        "greenhouse",
-        "greenhouse.io",
-        "greenhouse.emulation",
-        "greenhouse.ext"],
-    version=".".join(filter(None, map(str, VERSION))),
-    author="Travis Parker",
-    author_email="travis.parker@gmail.com",
-    url="http://github.com/teepark/greenhouse",
-    license="BSD",
-    classifiers=[
-        "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
-        "Intended Audience :: Developers",
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
-        "Natural Language :: English",
-        "Programming Language :: Python",
-    ],
-    install_requires=['greenlet'],
-)
-
-MANIFEST = (
-    "setup.py",
-    "paver-minilib.zip",
-)
-
-@task
-def manifest():
-    path('MANIFEST.in').write_lines('include %s' % x for x in MANIFEST)
-
-@task
-@needs('generate_setup', 'minilib', 'manifest', 'setuptools.command.sdist')
-def sdist():
-    pass
-
-@task
-def clean():
-    for p in map(path, (
-        'greenhouse.egg-info', 'dist', 'build', 'MANIFEST.in', 'docs/build')):
-        if p.exists():
-            if p.isdir():
-                p.rmtree()
-            else:
-                p.remove()
-    for p in path(__file__).abspath().parent.walkfiles():
-        if p.endswith(".pyc") or p.endswith(".pyo"):
-            p.remove()
-
-@task
-def docs():
-    # have to touch the automodules to build them every time since changes to
-    # the module's docstrings won't affect the timestamp of the .rst file
-    sh("find docs/source/greenhouse -name *.rst | xargs touch")
-    sh("cd docs; make html")
-
-@task
-def test():
-    sh("nosetests --processes=8")
diff --git a/paver-minilib.zip b/paver-minilib.zip
deleted file mode 100644
index b4a5081..0000000
Binary files a/paver-minilib.zip and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d041358..412985d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,31 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim: fileencoding=utf8:et:sw=4:ts=8:sts=4
+
 import os
-if os.path.exists("paver-minilib.zip"):
-    import sys
-    sys.path.insert(0, "paver-minilib.zip")
+from setuptools import setup
+
+
+VERSION = (2, 1, 4, "")
 
-import paver.tasks
-paver.tasks.main()
+setup(
+    name="greenhouse",
+    description="An I/O parallelism library making use of coroutines",
+    packages=[
+        "greenhouse",
+        "greenhouse.io",
+        "greenhouse.emulation",
+        "greenhouse.ext"],
+    version=".".join(filter(None, map(str, VERSION))),
+    author="Travis Parker",
+    author_email="travis.parker@gmail.com",
+    url="http://github.com/teepark/greenhouse",
+    license="BSD",
+    classifiers=[
+        "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+        "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
+        "Natural Language :: English",
+        "Programming Language :: Python",
+    ],
+    install_requires=['greenlet'],
+)