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

[Satish Balay]

Perhaps you mean:

https://www.continuum.io/downloads
It refers to http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html for just python+conda

For linux binaries https://www.python.org redirects to
http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads

Both should work for linux users with old python.

Satish

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Leoni, Massimiliano wrote:

> 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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