Dropping support for Python 2.3 at some point...

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org> [20070606 19:58]:
> On 6/6/07, Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> wrote:
> >
> >> +    l.sort(branch_cmp)
> >
> >Maybe it is better to add a boolean (is it a head) to each tuple as
> >the first element and then just use l.sort(); l.reverse()
> 
> 
> When will support for Python 2.3 be dropped?  Because as soon as it can be,
> I can start using l.sort(reverse=True).
> 
> I think there should be schedule for this  For example, there are many
> places in the code that would benefit from using sets, and using sets would
> likely decrease memory consumption and possibly increase performance in
> later versions of Python.  But sets are a Python 2.4 feature.

I think we should support Python 2.3 at least for the 1.0 release and
stable updates based on it.

Thomas

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