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REVISION SUMMARY We talked about this on the mailing list [1] and there seemed to be agreement that Python 3.5 is effectively dead and no longer worth supporting. So this commit changes our minimum version requirement to 3.6.2. [1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2022-February/147885.html REPOSITORY rHG Mercurial BRANCH default REVISION DETAIL https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12315 AFFECTED FILES setup.py CHANGE DETAILS diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -5,17 +5,11 @@ # 'python setup.py --help' for more options import os -# Mercurial will never work on Python 3 before 3.5 due to a lack -# of % formatting on bytestrings, and can't work on 3.6.0 or 3.6.1 -# due to a bug in % formatting in bytestrings. -# We cannot support Python 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2 because of bug in -# codecs.escape_encode() where it raises SystemError on empty bytestring -# bug link: https://bugs.python.org/issue25270 +# Mercurial can't work on 3.6.0 or 3.6.1 due to a bug in % formatting +# in bytestrings. supportedpy = ','.join( [ - '>=3.5.3', - '!=3.6.0', - '!=3.6.1', + '>=3.6.2', ] ) To: indygreg, #hg-reviewers Cc: mercurial-patches, mercurial-devel _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
