[petsc-dev] Python version

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Karl Rupp <rupp at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jed,
> >
> > interesting, thanks for sharing. I don't think that there is a significant
> > difference for PETSc users, since most Python installations come from
> > package repositories (as shown on the page). On clusters I'd say that there
> > is a slight bias towards older versions in general, not just Python.
> >
> 
> The article has massive selection bias: all people surveyed are actively
> using Python in their work. Many PETSc users don't write Python at all,
> PETSc is just using it for the build. If latter population was as
> up-to-date as these astro folks, we'd be able to drop compatibility for
> 10-year old versions of Python and upgrade a lot of cruddy code.

Since we use python for configure [which is supporsed to be portable]
- we shouldn't be insiting on single/latest version of python - like
any of these python applications can do. We have to support as
many[and old] version as we can.

Satish

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> >
> > Best regards,
> > Karli
> >
> >
> >
> > On 02/04/2013 07:06 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> >
> >> Astro is doing a great job of staying up to date. I wonder what the
> >> version distribution looks like for PETSc users.
> >>
> >> http://astrofrog.github.com/**blog/2013/01/13/what-python-**
> >> installations-are-scientists-**using/<http://astrofrog.github.com/blog/2013/01/13/what-python-installations-are-scientists-using/>
> >>
> >
> >
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