[petsc-dev] windows fixes.

[Barry Smith]

  Clumsy code it is :-)

On Jun 26, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
>> one more issue:
>> 
>> looks like 2a571ffb5945aee713990b6770e04534a0423780 is not python-2.4 compliant.
>> 
>> from  configure_next_arch-linux-gcc-absoft_churn.log
> 
> Damn, I checked that decorators were used elsewhere, but didn't actually
> test with python-2.4.  I now see that the other instances were not in
> essential code.
> 
>  $ git grep '^\s*@' config
>  config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:  @staticmethod
>  config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:  @config.memoize
>  config/BuildSystem/patch.py:      @property
>  config/BuildSystem/patch.py:      @property
>  config/BuildSystem/patch.py:      @property
>  config/builder.py:  @staticmethod
>  config/builder.py:  @staticmethod
>  config/builder.py:  @staticmethod
>  config/builder.py: @property
>  config/builder.py: @property
> 
> Should these other uses of decorators be replaced with the more clumsy
> syntax?  Or is it time to add --download-python?