Justin Riley

I think it makes sense to support _both_ distutils and setuptools via a try/catch block and this seems to be what most big projects do (look at IPython for example)....

@dmachi This pull request looks good, the only thing I'd add is some validation to make sure the specified security groups actually exist before trying to launch the cluster. If...

@dmachi also it'd be nice to update the docs for this new feature

@mikepfirrmann Awesome, thanks for adding validation and docs. I can merge your changes with this PR manually when I get to this pull request in case @dmachi hasn't added them...

I'm thinking of doing a more general solution which is a new command that would NFS-share a given directory on the master across all nodes in the cluster. Something like:...

This isn't from paramiko, it's from the native SSH client. StarCluster uses the native client before the more limited pure-Python/paramiko shell (the paramiko shell is mostly used on Windows). With...

@Feng-Zihao Sorry but could you redo this PR against the latest develop branch? The master branch is for releases only. All PRs in the future should go to the develop...

Agreed. @kevinw have you tried contacting the original author (Phil Frost) to see if he's willing to let you maintain the package on pypi?

For those interested there is an (unofficial?) set of json files that Amazon uses to maintain it's instance type pricing page. You'll have to look at the source to find...

@abarnert We just merged some large project changes which most importantly includes scaffolding for a test suite, however, we still don't have enough test coverage yet. Ideally we'd have closer...