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

[Jeff Hammond]

PETSc can build MUMPS. Why not Python? :-)

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 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].
>
> 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
>


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