[petsc-dev] Do we still need to support python 2.4?

[Barry Smith]

> On Oct 13, 2015, at 6:50 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
>>  print '*          Python is easy to install for end users or sys-admin.              *'
>>  print '*                  http://www.python.org/download/                            *'
> 
> 
> Actually I don't think python is trivial for most end-users to install
> [with all the modules - like ssl, compression and others stuff that
> configure requires].

   It is on Mac :-)

   Anyways that is part of the old message, you can remove those two lines if you want.


> 
> However I think RHEL5 and similar OSes are on clusters/servers
> supported by a sys-admin. And they might already have python-2.6 or
> newer [but its accessed with python26 or might need a proper module to
> be loaded]
> 
> If missing - google gives easy install guide for [admins] for rhel5.
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1465036/install-python-2-6-in-centos
> [install prebuilt binary from 'fedora epel'
> 
> http://bda.ath.cx/blog/2009/04/08/installing-python-26-in-centos-5-or-rhel5/
> [install some devel packages from rhel - before attempting to compile
> python from sources]
> 
> Hopefully we don't have to deal with other OSes with python-2.4
> 
> Satish