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

[Leoni, Massimiliano]

How about you bring in anaconda?
It ships with [almost] all dependencies and the installation is fairly automated, it should be feasible.

Massimiliano



> -----Original Message-----
> From: petsc-dev-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:petsc-dev-
> bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Satish Balay
> Sent: 14 October 2015 07:06
> To: Jeff Hammond
> Cc: petsc-dev
> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] Do we still need to support python 2.4?
> 
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Jeff Hammond wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Jeff Hammond wrote:
> > >
> > > > PETSc can build MUMPS. Why not Python? :-)
> > >
> > > and gcc :)
> > >
> > >
> > I have GCC builds almost completely automated for similar reasons as
> > Python
> > 2.4 (eg my CentOS box is stuck with ancient GCC) so I don't actually
> > think this is unreasonable. But the build time would be almost as long
> > as ATLAS if PETSc did this ;-)
> 
> To be more specific - python has lot more dependencies as compared to
> MUMPS [or even gcc] and difficult to get them built acorss various
> architectures. [ esp when we have different machines with different system
> libraries installed]
> 
> http://bda.ath.cx/blog/2009/04/08/installing-python-26-in-centos-5-or-
> rhel5/
> For ex: on such a machine - its easier to do the following to get all the
> dependent packages installed - then create a bootstrap build tool that check
> for - and builds the missing packages from this list. [perhaps there are
> equivalent simple routes for other OSes aswell]
> 
> yum install gcc gdbm-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel \
>   bzip2-devel sqlite-devel db4-devel openssl-devel tk-devel bluez-libs-devel
> 
> And what tool do we we use to build python [and its dependencies]?
> Have a separate buildsystem in shell or python2.4 to build python2.6?
> 
> Satish
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