[vtk-developers] Minimum Python requirement

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Wed Dec 11 08:45:02 EST 2013


I don't think I have seen anything below 2.4 on the HPC systems I've built.
Dave/Andy? Any thoughts on that? Ben, maybe we should post this to the
ParaView users list as well.

Utkarsh


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtk-developers
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/attachments/20131211/1fe02646/attachment.html>


More information about the vtk-developers mailing list