# HG changeset patch
# User Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
# Date 1646275320 28800
# Node ID 656196c1d4423ddf25c83c27f3ac696d3a7daa46
# Parent  ec6a4021beb1b892993c56f99eeadaa69118eb17
setup: drop support for Python 3.5

We talked about this on the mailing list [1] and there seemed to be
agreement that Python 3.5 is effectively dead and no longer worth
supporting.

So this commit changes our minimum version requirement to 3.6.2.

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2022-February/147885.html

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12315

diff -r ec6a4021beb1 -r 656196c1d442 setup.py
--- a/setup.py	Sat Feb 19 22:14:41 2022 -0700
+++ b/setup.py	Wed Mar 02 18:42:00 2022 -0800
@@ -5,17 +5,11 @@
 # 'python setup.py --help' for more options
 import os
 
-# Mercurial will never work on Python 3 before 3.5 due to a lack
-# of % formatting on bytestrings, and can't work on 3.6.0 or 3.6.1
-# due to a bug in % formatting in bytestrings.
-# We cannot support Python 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2 because of bug in
-# codecs.escape_encode() where it raises SystemError on empty bytestring
-# bug link: https://bugs.python.org/issue25270
+# Mercurial can't work on 3.6.0 or 3.6.1 due to a bug in % formatting
+# in bytestrings.
 supportedpy = ','.join(
     [
-        '>=3.5.3',
-        '!=3.6.0',
-        '!=3.6.1',
+        '>=3.6.2',
     ]
 )