Fwd: Dropping support for Python 2.6

[Augie Fackler]

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From: Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:26 PM
Subject: Dropping support for Python 2.6
To: Mercurial mailing list <mercurial at mercurial-scm.org>


This is just a heads-up that the Mercurial Project has decided to drop
support for Python 2.6. Mercurial 4.2 (the current release) will be
the last release that supports running on 2.6. Mercurial 4.3 will
require Python 2.7.

Python 2.6 is just too time consuming to continue supporting. It is
interfering with other efforts, such as supporting Python 3. And,
Python 2.6 just isn't a good end-user experience: it is slower than
Python 2.7 and doesn't support modern security primitives, making
connections susceptible to eavesdropping.

We understand there are still a handful of users running the latest
version of Mercurial on Python 2.6. If you get in touch (preferably
via mercurial-devel at mercurial-scm.org), we're willing to make
packaging available to facilitate running future versions of Mercurial
[with a bundled Python 2.7]. But we need to know what environments to
target, installation requirements, etc.

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