[Distutils] Distribute without 2to3

[Michael Foord]

On 21 June 2011 13:42, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 13:30, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> We still need to support Python 2.4, right? That's a trickier issue.
> >> But including six.py might help.
> >
> > I'm not sure why 2.4 is a particular issue.
>
> It isn't. The big difference is between 2.5 and 2.6. But each
> additional version brings it's own incompatibilities.
>
>
Really? In my experience dropping 2.4 support allows you to use the with
statement (just as dropping 2.3 support allows you to use decorators) which
is a big change. I've found the 2.5-2.6 changes to be much less dramatic.

I have to jump through hoops a little bit to test context managers in a code
base that remains 2.4 compatible (you can *write* context managers and
remain 2.4 compatible - just not use them).

Michael



> > I just tested on 2.4.6 without any
> > failures. See
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/1037662
>
> That's positive but...
>
> > Of course, I'm assuming that "python setup.py test" gives adequate
> coverage.
>
> It doesn't. Far from it, unfortunately.
>
> //Lennart
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