sqlite bindings are in Python 2.5, and so is hashlib.sha256. When we've had buildslave failures for unsupported syntax, they've usually been for 2.4.x and not 2.5. So is the simplejson dependency the only reason to drop support for 2.5?
If so, note that the json module in the stdlib is not identical to simplejson. According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/712791/json-and-simplejson-module-differences-in-python, the stdlib version is less frequently updated and slower (although I would be more concerned about security-relevant bugfixes than speed).
I agree we should definitely drop support for 2.4.x.
zooko wrote:
"oldest supported version of the operating system" is supposed to be the oldest release of the operating system that is supported *by the operating system distributors*, i.e. the oldest release of the operating system that still gets security patches.
Oh, ok, that wasn't at all obvious.
