[petsc-dev] Python 2.2

[Barry Smith]

  I'm fine with requiring 2.3 for petsc-dev's Buildsystem.  Have config/configure.py just reject anything less than 2.3 at start up.


   Barry

On Jun 3, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> On 3 June 2010 17:27, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> Well currently there is some code in petsc-dev which is not python2.2
>> compatible.
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> No module named platform
>> *******************************************************************************
>> 
> 
> You see, Python 2.2 is too damn old. Nobody I know with a nontrivial
> codebase ever bother to support it. Cython support Python 2.3 to 3.x.
> Older NumPy supported 2.3, IIRC current NumPy development targets 2.4.
> 
> I'm a big fan of developing on the bleeding edge (I use Fedora!) and
> also supporting old stuff (like older Python, PETSc, MPI releases).
> But I consider Python 2.2 really, really old. If it were on my hands,
> I would drop support for 2.2, but still support 2.3. Anyway, my
> opinion on  this does not count, as I never ever had to deal with
> BuildSystem.
> 
> 
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