( )⚙ D12315 setup: drop support for Python 3.5

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Differential D12315

setup: drop support for Python 3.5
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Authored by indygreg on Mar 2 2022, 9:42 PM.

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rHG656196c1d442: setup: drop support for Python 3.5
Summary

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

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indygreg created this revision.Mar 2 2022, 9:42 PM
Alphare accepted this revision.Mar 3 2022, 6:01 AM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 3 2022, 6:01 AM
indygreg added a commit: rHG656196c1d442: setup: drop support for Python 3.5.Mar 3 2022, 6:06 AM
Closed by commit rHG656196c1d442: setup: drop support for Python 3.5 (authored by indygreg). · Explain Why
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Msetup.py (12 lines)

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setup.py

# #
# This is the mercurial setup script. # This is the mercurial setup script.
# #
# 'python setup.py install', or # 'python setup.py install', or
# 'python setup.py --help' for more options # 'python setup.py --help' for more options
import os import os
# Mercurial will never work on Python 3 before 3.5 due to a lack # Mercurial can't work on 3.6.0 or 3.6.1 due to a bug in % formatting
# of % formatting on bytestrings, and can't work on 3.6.0 or 3.6.1 # in bytestrings.
# 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
supportedpy = ','.join( supportedpy = ','.join(
[ [
'>=3.5.3', '>=3.6.2',
'!=3.6.0',
'!=3.6.1',
] ]
) )
import sys, platform import sys, platform
import sysconfig import sysconfig
def sysstr(s): def sysstr(s):