Re: Dropping support for Python 2.6 on Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Simon Farnsworth
On 16/03/2017 10:14, Augie Fackler wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:54:27AM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: There is a brewing discussion about the future of Python 2.6 in Mercurial. I'd like to start with what I think will be an easy proposal: officially dropping support for 2.6 on Windows. I'm

Re: Dropping support for Python 2.6 on Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Siddharth Agarwal
On 3/16/17 09:54, Gregory Szorc wrote: There is a brewing discussion about the future of Python 2.6 in Mercurial. I'd like to start with what I think will be an easy proposal: officially dropping support for 2.6 on Windows. Sounds reasonable to me. First, I think dropping 2.6 on Windows

Re: Dropping support for Python 2.6 on Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Augie Fackler
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:54:27AM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > There is a brewing discussion about the future of Python 2.6 in Mercurial. > I'd like to start with what I think will be an easy proposal: officially > dropping support for 2.6 on Windows. I'm in favor of this. Perhaps also sound

Dropping support for Python 2.6 on Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Gregory Szorc
There is a brewing discussion about the future of Python 2.6 in Mercurial. I'd like to start with what I think will be an easy proposal: officially dropping support for 2.6 on Windows. First, I think dropping 2.6 on Windows doesn't really buy us anything significant. 2.6 and 2.7 build with the