[vtk-developers] Minimum Python requirement

[Sean McBride]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:55:32 -0500, Ben Boeckel said:

>The only distributions I've seen which don't have at least Python 2.4
>are either EOL (RHEL 4, SLED 9, Slackware 10), have newer vesions
>available (ActiveState's ActivePython for Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX), or
>are far beyond even 2.4 (Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OS X). Windows has
>manual Python management anyways, so I don't think that would be an
>issue.
>
>So is bumping the minimum version to 2.4 reasonable? If not, is anyone
>willing to host a dashboard with 2.3 to help keep it working?

That's certainly OK for OS X.  VTK 6 requires OS X 10.5 or newer, and 10.5 comes with python 2.5.  Rogue3 is this config.

Cheers,

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