setup module in 0.7 has Python 2.6 code in it… 0.7.1 pending

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Hi all,

So the setup module contains a bit of Python 2.6-only code, which is not good on supporting older platforms that have only 2.4 … which is something we still want to support.
It's important.

This isn't a problem for anyone who doesn't have any Python 2.4 infrastructure (like RHEL5), but if you do, it is.

We will probably do a minor 0.7.1 release and tar ball in the coming days.

To allow anyone to fix any bugs found on the release-0.7 branch, I'm not going to release this immediately, we'll probably shoot for early next week.

Everyone writing modules should make sure they only use Python 2.4 compatible code. This is usually something I review, though in this case it was string.format
and it slipped through.

Thanks!

--Michael

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Another trivial issue...

In the included rpm spec file:-
  - Date stamp for 0.7 has been copied from 0.6 (so is in August)
  - The changelog entries refer to a -0 release, but the spec
    uses a -1 release - ie the line should say:-

* Thu Sep 6 2012 Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com> - 0.7-1

  Nigel.

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Aha, you have discovered my perchant for time travel. I really
should be more careful about covering that up.

You can send a pull request against the release-0.7 branch if you want.

(What is released is actually 0.7.0, FWIW, regardless of changelog)