DeprecationWarning in ./config/configure.py

[Hiroshi Katsurayama]

Dear Satish

> Yes - you can saftely ignore these 'DeprecationWarning:' messages. It
> means : "the functionality works now - but it won't with newer
> versions".

Thank you very much for the detailed information about Python status.
I was relieved to hear the cause of the warnings.

Sincerely,
Hiroshi Katsurayama



On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:45:13 -0500 (CDT)
Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> > Are these warnings ignorable?
> 
> Yes - you can saftely ignore these 'DeprecationWarning:' messages. It
> means : "the functionality works now - but it won't with newer
> versions".
> 
> Python changed considerably between python-2 and the new
> python-3. Python-2.6 is supporsed to be a bridge that enables easier
> transition to python-3.
> 
> We need to eventually get configure working with both python3 and python2
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Hiroshi Katsurayama wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I try to use PETSC-3.0.0-p4 on Ubuntu 9.04 linux (present beta version)
> > whose python version is 2.6.1.
> > 
> > When ./config/configure.py, the following there "DeprecationWarning"s appear before "TESTING:". 
> > 
> > =================================================================================
> >              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system                         
> > =================================================================================
> > /home/hiroshi/local/petsc/petsc-3.0.0-p4/config/BuildSystem/config/compilers.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
> >   import sets
> > /home/hiroshi/local/petsc/petsc-3.0.0-p4/config/PETSc/package.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
> >   import md5
> > /home/hiroshi/local/petsc/petsc-3.0.0-p4/config/BuildSystem/script.py:101: DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
> >   import popen2
> > 
> > TESTING:
> > 
> > The configure process after TESTING seems to finish successfully, 
> > and next "make all" and "make test" also seem to finish normally.
> > 
> > Are these warnings ignorable?
> > 
> > I attache the detailed log file of my configure (my_linux_gnu_intel.log).
> > But these warnings also appear in
> > simply
> > 
> > "./config/configure.py"
> > 
> > irrespective of compiler or blas.
> > 
> > When I tried the configure on Ubuntu 8.10 whose python version is 2.5.2,
> > these warning did not appear.
> > 
> > Hence the latest python (version 2.6.1) on Ubuntu 9.04 BETA maybe cause these warnings.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Hiroshi Katsurayama
> > 
> 


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