On Feb 4, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Karl Rupp <rupp at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > Hi Jed, > > interesting, thanks for sharing. I don't think that there is a significant > difference for PETSc users, since most Python installations come from package > repositories (as shown on the page). On clusters I'd say that there is a > slight bias towards older versions in general, not just Python. > > The article has massive selection bias: all people surveyed are actively > using Python in their work. Many PETSc users don't write Python at all, PETSc > is just using it for the build. If latter population was as up-to-date as > these astro folks, we'd be able to drop compatibility for 10-year old > versions of Python and upgrade a lot of cruddy code. Yup, 3.3 all the way :-) > > > Best regards, > Karli > > > > On 02/04/2013 07:06 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > Astro is doing a great job of staying up to date. I wonder what the > version distribution looks like for PETSc users. > > http://astrofrog.github.com/blog/2013/01/13/what-python-installations-are-scientists-using/ > >
