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[Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We (Google) cared about 2.4 way back when, since we were still using it in
our production systems. This is no longer the case, we are on 2.6 now. In
the not-too-distant future we will be on 2.7. As for many shops our size, 3
is still a bit of a pipe dream.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 16:01, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At the moment, Dulwich is still compatible with Python 2.4.
>
> This makes it necessary to keep backports of several parts of
> the standard library around (living in dulwich._compat),
> and means we have to avoid certain parts of the language.
>
> Being able to depend on at least Python 2.6 would make our lives
> a little bit easier and would possibly make it feasible to support
> Python 2 and Python 3 using the same codebase (either that, or it
> would massively reduce the delta between the two codebases).
>
> I'm not planning on removing Python2.4 compatibility tomorrow, but I
> would like to get an idea of how important Python 2.4 and Python 3 are
> to Dulwich users.
>
> Do people care about Python 2.4, 2.5 and 3.x ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>
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