Breaking python2.4 compatibility for bzr-2.4

[Martin (gzlist)]

On 21/04/2011, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>
> I would certainly like to hear your arguments. I couldn't come up with
> anything motivating for me. But if you have specific needs, you're
> certainly a valuable member of the community, and we want to make sure
> things work for you.

I'm just working on the reverse logic. Dropping support means some
pain for me, and I've not seen anything motivating in the list of
benefits.

That said, the merge proposal that prompted this thread is a little
vexing for compatibility, as try/yield/finally has no trivial
alternative even if I don't like the style. If you've got further
plans for using 2.5-or-later features, I'm interested in hearing more.
There are some 2.6 features I occasionally pine for, but as Alexander
mentions elsewhere in this thread, that then means the mess of a new C
runtime library on windows so I'm unlikely to make that jump soon.

Martin