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[Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:01 PM, 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 ?

I care in a halfhearted way. Mercurial supports 2.4, but I break it somewhat regularly in my extensions and then get patches. If you drop < 2.6, I won't stand in the way.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer
> 
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