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[Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:01:50AM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij 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 ?
For my own projects, I only care about 2.6 and 2.7 at the moment.

I'm keeping an eye on pypy and Python 3, but I'm not really using either for
anything yet.

FTR, Dulwich' testsuite passes with pypy and Chris Eberle ported
Dulwich to Python3 (though that's a separate codebase at the moment,
see the "python3" branch).

Cheers,

Jelmer