A couple more numbers for python-2.4 logs. The 10 logs are from 7 machines: 6 RHEL5 [or clone] 1 SUSE [?? version]
Satish On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Satish Balay wrote: > Sorry - I was looking at the wrong date - and ended up captured e-mail > from sept 2013. > > Here are the numbers for e-mail starting aug-2014. > > 10 2.4 > 162 2.6 > 310 2.7 > > Total: 482 > > Satish > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Satish Balay wrote: > > > For emails starting from sept 2014 - I have 865 configure.log files > > [with python version listed]. > > > > Here is the count for various versions: > > > > 28 2.4 > > 284 2.6 > > 553 2.7 > > > > Note: most of our nightlybuild machines are using ubuntu 12.04 - which > > defaults to python-2.6 > > > > Satish > > > > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Barry Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > Satish, > > > > > > Can you check all the configure.log files we have received in that last > > > year for the python version? If a vanishing small number are below 2.7 we > > > can make 2.7 the minimum requirement. Or 2.6 With your pine mail you > > > should be able to write a python3 script in just a few minutes to check > > > this. > > > > > > > > > Barry > > > > On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:36 PM, Satish Balay <ba...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > > > > > > Previously - I've used the currently supported RHEL as a base case. > > > > > > > > Since RHEL5 is still currently supported -and it defaults to > > > > python-2.4 we've used python-2.4 as the minimum for petsc configure. > > > > > > > > However its 8 years old - [and now RHEL had much longer lifecycle 11+ > > > > years - in extended-support mode] > > > > > > > > I'm not sure how many users still have this old version [or other > > > > software stack that defaults to python-2.4]. Perhaps its ok to upgrade > > > > the requirements in petsc master [I'm not completely sure about it.\ > > > > > > > > And RHEL-6 defaults to python-2.6. [so when we update the minimum > > > > version - I would go for that] > > > > > > > > Satish > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Barry Smith wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > > >> This depends on what (prehistoric) distributions of Linux are still > > > >> commonly used that only have 2.4. In our experience many users still > > > >> use very old distributions and asking them to "upgrade" is not likely > > > >> to be successful since the users don't control the machines they use. > > > >> > > > >> This is why we kept 2.4 I think we need to keep 2.4 support > > > >> > > > >> Barry > > > >> > > > >>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Tobin Isaac <tis...@ices.utexas.edu> > > > >>> wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> Honest question. I've got some changes in buildsystem > > > >>> (tisaac/buildsystem-feature-parallel) that heavily use the > > > >>> with-statement context manager introduced in python 2.5. > > > >>> > > > >>> Cheers, > > > >>> Toby > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
