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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 06:21, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Otoh, python 2.5 has been out for a while (and is in fact only
> downloadable as a source-only release these days). To be exact, it was
> released on September 19, 2006.

As a trivia: most of our Perl code is still 5.6 compatible. That'd be
like supporting Python 1.6 (or actually, 1.5.2, 1.6 came out half a
year after Perl 5.6).

Anyway, dying in the program as you suggest seems like a better idea.