Dropping support for Python 2.4

[Lukáš Lalinský]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Blake Winton <bwinton at latte.ca> 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.

As far as I know, it doesn't ship with Python 2.4 either, so that's
not really a good argument.

Lukas