A plea for Python 2.3

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

On 28/05/2009, at 02.38, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> I was testing the fix for http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/
> issue967 today and discovered that the next release of Mercurial will
> not support Python 2.3.
>
> As a lurker on this list, I recognize that I may have missed prior
> discussions and/or rationale for why 2.3 support is being dropped.
> Have I missed the boat to plea for continued support for Python 2.3?

I'm not a core Mercurial developer, but from following its  
development, I'd say the chances of getting any part of Mercurial 1.3  
— or later — to run unmodified on Python 2.3 is quite low. After  
dropping support for Python 2.3 — first released in 2003 — people  
have been modifying Mercurial to use Python features introduced in 2.4.

I believe the removal of support for Python 2.3 was announced in this  
mail:
<http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2009-March/024823.html>

I suspect that your only options are either to backport the changes  
you need to Mercurial 1.2, port Mercurial 1.3 to Python 2.3 when  
released, or somehow get Python 2.4 or later running on the servers,  
and use that.

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Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
danchr at gmail.com

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