<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Satish Balay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:balay@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">balay@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":d7">Since we use python for configure [which is supporsed to be portable]<br>
- we shouldn't be insiting on single/latest version of python - like<br>
any of these python applications can do. We have to support as<br>
many[and old] version as we can.</div></blockquote></div><br>Right, but if 99% of users had python-2.5 or later (on all machines they used), we'd be in a reasonable position to stop maintaining compatibility with older python. Sean's point about being able to support python-3 within the same code base is good.</div>
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