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setup: raise minimum Python version to 2.7.4
On older Python versions, Mercurial is not really usable because of
https://bugs.python.org/issue10211.
Recently someone reported a crash on the mailing list when running Mercurial
on Python 2.7.3. There was consensus that fixing compatibility for a Python
version more than 7 years old is not worth it. So, instead of making Mercurial
crash with an obscure exception, this patch raises the minimum Python version
to 2.7.4.
| author | Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de> |
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| date | Fri, 15 May 2020 00:53:37 +0200 |
| parents | 1b59287a1cfa |
| children | c5912e35d06d |
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Mercurial ========= Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool for software developers. Basic install:: $ make # see install targets $ make install # do a system-wide install $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup $ hg # see help Running without installing:: $ make local # build for inplace usage $ ./hg --version # should show the latest version See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.