[cctbxbb] Backwards compatibility; Python 2.3?

Marcin Wojdyr wojdyr at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 04:26:41 PDT 2017


It makes sense to repeat this kind of question from time to time. At
some point Python 2.5 won't be needed anymore.

On 6 June 2017 at 23:31,  <markus.gerstel at diamond.ac.uk> wrote:
> What Richard says. DIALS and xia2 is Python >= 2.7 though.
>
> This comes up every ~9 months (last time as far as I can tell http://phenix-online.org/pipermail/cctbxbb/2016-September/001453.html) and should probably be mentioned in a few README.MDs or so.
>
> Maybe even put in a test to guarantee compatibility?
> (Should not be too difficult to build something on top of https://github.com/ghewgill/pyqver)
>
> -Markus
>
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> Hi Nick,
>
> I think officially we now support Python >= 2.5 as far as running general cctbx code, but try to support installing cctbx (i.e. via the libtbx bootstrap mechanism) with Python >= 2.4.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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> From: cctbxbb-bounces at phenix-online.org [cctbxbb-bounces at phenix-online.org] on behalf of Nicholas Devenish [ndevenish at gmail.com]
> Sent: 06 June 2017 15:08
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> Subject: [cctbxbb] Backwards compatibility; Python 2.3?
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm starting to go through and learn some of the structure of these
> packages, starting with libtbx.
>
> What's the supported targets supposed to be? There seems to be code
> specifically marked as backwards compatibility for Python 2.3 (2003),
> and packages explicitly included that were merged into the standard
> library around the same time (e.g. Optik).
>
> Is this really as far back as we need to support?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick Devenish
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