Re:Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3
by indygreg2 on Monday January 13, 2020 @09:55PM
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The late start was mostly due to having to retain Python 2.4/2.5 compatibility until May 2015 and it was literally impossible to use some future statements or some Python 3 syntax until 2.6 was required. I have updated the post to reflect this.
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Re:Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3
by mixmastamyk on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:33PM
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IC, that’s unfortunate. Believe that is the time to cut a legacy branch/release rather than block progress for a decade.