[vtk-developers] Minimum Python requirement

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
I think it is reasonable to move forward, it would be good to get some
feedback from people who build on supercomputers as to whether this
would cause issues (as far as I remember they usually have 2.6/2.7
available too.

Marcus