On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Since we use python for configure [which is supporsed to be portable] > - we shouldn't be insiting on single/latest version of python - like > any of these python applications can do. We have to support as > many[and old] version as we can. > Right, but if 99% of users had python-2.5 or later (on all machines they used), we'd be in a reasonable position to stop maintaining compatibility with older python. Sean's point about being able to support python-3 within the same code base is good. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20130204/48b72301/attachment-0001.html>
