Dropping support for Python 2.4

[Raindog]

Blake Winton wrote:
> Daniel Watkins wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 17:45 +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>>> Unfortunately we're still supporting Python 2.4.  AFAIK there are no
>>> plans to change that.
>> I wonder if it's time to change this policy.  Looking at a few major
>> distros:       * Debian: python2.5 is in stable (soon to be 
>> oldstable)       * Ubuntu: python2.5 has been in since Feisty (and 
>> bzr is 0.8.2 in
>>         dapper, so we're presumably not going to be backporting
>>         incompatible changes any time soon)       * Fedora: Python 
>> version 2.5 since Fedora 7 (which was as early as
>>         I could dig records out for)
>>
>> So it wouldn't be unreasonable to start thinking about it.
>
> OSX 10.4 (what I'm running) doesn't ship with Python 2.5.
>
> http://mercurial.berkwood.com/blog/?p=17
> Mercurial ships with two installers, "One for OS X 10.5 that uses the 
> default pre-installed Python and one that can be used on 10.4 that 
> uses Python 2.5 from python.org"
>
> Later,
> Blake.
>
>
I hardly see how shipping with a package is a requirement. Windows 
doesn't ship with python, perl, ruby or even C compiler...