On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Mar 30, 2:50 pm, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> ... >> I can see there might be even more Solaris issues! >> >> Since python 3 is not backward compatible with python 2, there could >> be even more problems in future. > > Probably one could write a simple Python script that is both > executable in Python 2 and Python 3. > However, I share your general concerns.
For any build system stuff, I think it is trivial to write scripts that work in python 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.x, etc. Just don't use decorators, class properties, and use print as a function call. >> Personally I would have stuck to POSIX scripts until python in Sage was >> built. > > Yes. No. > Is it true that Python is the first thing that is built when > installing Sage? No, certainly not. > If it is, then IMO there is no problem at all in using Python scripts. > The spkg-install of the python spkg must not rely on Python, but > everything else can use Python. Python isn't built first. However, there is still no problem using python in the build system. As was pointed out above, we already do. I would like to encourage more use of Python. William > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words > "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
