--- a/makeitso/makeitso.py	Mon Dec 13 21:03:39 2010 -0800
+++ b/makeitso/makeitso.py	Tue Dec 14 22:46:56 2010 -0800
@@ -81,8 +81,11 @@
 
 def base_uri(uri):
     if '://' in uri:
-        return 'uri'.rsplit('/', 1)[0]
-    return os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath('me'))
+        return 'uri'.rsplit('/', 1)[0] + '/'
+    else:
+        here = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath('me'))
+        here = here.rstrip(os.path.sep) + os.path.sep
+        return here
 
 def include(uri):
     f, headers = urllib.urlretrieve(uri)