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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2011-05-11 11:35:28 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 5851.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20110511113528-qepibuwxicjrbb2h
Break compatibility with python <2.6.

This includes auditing the code for places where we were doing
explicit 'sys.version' checks and removing them as appropriate.

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2.1, 2.2 and 2.3, and can read and write repositories generated by all
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previous versions.
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Dropping Python2.4 and Python2.5 support
 
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Bazaar 2.4.0 is the first version of bzr to drop support for python
 
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versions before 2.6. The 2.3 series will still be maintained in bugfix
 
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mode for people who need older versions of python. This allows us to clean
 
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up the syntax in our files, as well as start looking into python3
 
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compatibility.
 
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External merge tools
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