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

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
> > 
> >   Don't build from source, just get the prebuilt packages
> 
> From what I could find so far - prebuils are availabe for python-2.7
> [good for users] - but not python-2.6 [I'm checking this for our
> testsuite]

I was primarily looking for linux - but now I do see a prebuilt
(32bit) for Mac

https://www.python.org/downloads/mac-osx/

Satish

> 
> > > We already have opensolaris with python2.6 as default - and might add
> > > RHEL6 (clone) in the test mix later. [Since configure succeeds with
> > > OSX+python2.6 - I can use it aswell.
> 
> These alternatives are available for the tests..
> 
> Satish
>