Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Jed Brown wrote: > >> Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: >> > But then - as you said - python 2.4 doesn't provide python2 >> >> Python 2.6.8 (April 2012) does not provide python2! > > so changing 'python' to 'python2' in configure won't help
The front-end "configure" stub, runs in any version of Python, and can provide a helpful error message. The question is when people will have to spell out the path to their Python. Note that Ubuntu 14.04 (this coming spring) intends to only have python3 in the officially supported repositories (and on installation media). If you need python2, you'll have to get it from the community repositories. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/ With respect to the old versions of Python in the logs, a better question is which of those machines do not have a more recent version of Python, perhaps one that you have to invoke using "python2.6" instead of "python". The barrier for upgrading is much lower if people can trivially run configure with a suitably recent Python.
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