Dropping support for Python 2.3 at some point...

[Germán Poó Caamaño]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 20:03 +0200, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> * 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.

Really?  Mercurial doesn't work with Python 2.3.  I tried twice and I
still have the conversations when I asked for support in #mercurial.

Regards,

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Germán Poó Caamaño
Concepción - Chile