Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > Do you know if archlinux will switch over to using the guideline from > python.org?
The guideline does not prohibit Arch from doing what they did (3 years ago). It says that scripts should use "python2" if they will only work for python-2.x and use "python" if they work for both python-2.x (x=6 or 7 in practice) and 3.y. > We are currently using python version from RHEL as a guideline. RHEL5 > has python 2.4 with eol in march-2017. > > And I see RHEL6 has python-2.6 Python-2.5 was released in 2006, so this is more than 10 years. We're not very tolerant of PETSc users that are still using petsc-2.1.2. This is not to say we have to drop support right away, but python-2.4 is getting quite old and forces us to use a number of more fragile constructs. We may have trouble holding out until 2017.
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