htgoebel/python-musicbrainz-ngs — comment on commit 70bbb829cfde3d9a96a7ec047dc5cc6e7a240749
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By htgoebel:

Am 01.11.2011 14:56, schrieb Alastair Porter:
> The intent is for the requirement to be Python 2.7. I'm not sure we explicitly use anything greater than about 2.5 here, but we could change the comment to reflect that. Python 2.4 is too old to be a lowest level requirement -

Even Python 2.5 is still widely used. I know since I'm co-maintaining
www.PyInstaller.org.
Which new features are offered by Python 2.7 which are really needed by
this lib? So is it worth dropping backward-compatibility?

> We shouldn't explicitly need to say that a 7 year old release is requird

It's much better to state minimum requirements, for both users and
developers.