[petsc-dev] Python version

[Jed Brown]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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.
>

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.
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