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
--- 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',
]
)