[petsc-dev] python2 vs python3 wrt configure

[Barry Smith]

On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
> 
> With respect to the old versions of Python in the logs, a better
> question is which of those machines do not have a more recent version of
> Python, perhaps one that you have to invoke using "python2.6" instead of
> "python".  The barrier for upgrading is much lower if people can
> trivially run configure with a suitably recent Python.

  Ok, add to Configure something that checks for later pythons and declares them configure.log 

  In another year we’ll have good stats on is information.

   Barry