Breaking python2.4 compatibility for bzr-2.4

[John Arbash Meinel]

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> I think it's still an open question whether dropping 2.4 will help
> with going to python3.  As I said in the earlier thread, if someone
> comes up with a patch that moves bzr (or even some nontrivial subset)
> to py3 compatibility, and they say that they found it too hard to do
> this without using py2.6 features, that would be a compelling reason
> to drop 2.4.  Some people on the web have said they found this to be
> the case in other projects, but other people say the opposite, so I
> don't put a lot of weight on it.
> 

So I agree with you, with the major point that it was 1 of about 6
points for why we should switch. So while it isn't a critical reason, it
is one more bit that pushes us in that direction.

Barry also pointed out:

7) python-2.4 is no longer even security maintained upstream

John
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