[Swift-commit] r7733 - SwiftApps/cloud

[ketan at ci.uchicago.edu]

Author: ketan
Date: 2014-03-19 12:55:13 -0500 (Wed, 19 Mar 2014)
New Revision: 7733

Modified:
   SwiftApps/cloud/README
Log:
documentation as per the new api

Modified: SwiftApps/cloud/README
===================================================================
--- SwiftApps/cloud/README	2014-03-19 17:42:03 UTC (rev 7732)
+++ SwiftApps/cloud/README	2014-03-19 17:55:13 UTC (rev 7733)
@@ -15,14 +15,27 @@
 EC2 CLI API
 ------------
 
-For the purpose of this tutorial, installation and setup of EC2 commandline
-tools API is assumed. In other words, EC2 commands such as `ec2-run-instances`,
-`ec2kill`, etc must be available in your environment. Instructions for setting
-the EC2 CLI API ican be found
+This tutorial is tested with EC2 commandline tools API version +1.6.12.2+.  The
+instructions for download, install and configuring the EC2 CLI API can be found
 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/SettingUp_CommandLine.html[here].
+For quick install, you can download a copy as follows:
 
-Installation and setup
-----------------------
+----
+wget http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~ketan/ec2-api-tools.zip
+unzip ec2-api-tools.zip
+----
+
+Make sure the `PATH` is set to point to the `bin` directory of the unzipped API
+package. For example, if the package is unzipped in `$HOME`:
+
+----
+export PATH=$HOME/ec2-api-tools-1.6.12.2/bin:$PATH
+----
+
+
+Swift Installation
+-------------------
+
 To install Swift, follow the instructions found
 http://swift-lang.org/downloads/index.php[here]. We use the Swift version 0.94
 from the SVN repository. Note that Swift installation is required only on the
@@ -34,6 +47,7 @@
 cd swift-cloud
 ----
 
+
 Configure
 ----------