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[Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/10/27 Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Seems that utilities/ec2 is more than a little broken right now. I've
> documented what I hope is a good workaround:
>
>  Using a virtualenv to access the ec2 tools
>    https://dev.launchpad.net/EC2Test/WithVirtualEnv
>
> It takes a little while to set up, but should, hopefully, work until
> Launchpad is running on Python 2.5 or later, or until someone figures
> out how to make buildout set things up appropriately for devscripts...
> In fact, Gary said this was possible now, so hopefully this workaround
> will be very short lived.
>
> /me goes to try and figure it out.

Note that you can also simply a use an older revision. That's what
I've been doing ever since ec2 got borked and it works just fine. I
think that's a much simpler solution.