On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Jed Brown wrote: > 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/
yeah its a 'apt-get install python2'. Similar thing with future fedora releases. > 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. with such isses python creates - no wonder considerable number of tools still use /bin/sh [one doesn't have to change scripts every 10 years so that the correct sh is found] Satish
