[Buildbot-devel] Python-2.4 support

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

Twisted's 11.1 release is the last with support for Python-2.4.

I'd like to make Buildbot 0.8.6 the last to support Python 2.4, as
well.  Requiring at least Python 2.5 means that we can use
inlineCallbacks[1] instead of deferredGenerator, which will make a lot
of code significantly more readable.  It also means we can remove a
number of workarounds for bugs or missing features in 2.4.  Python 2.4
is coming up on its seventh birthday (it was born November 30, 2004).

Does anyone have any strong objections to this change?

Dustin

[1] http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/8.1.0/api/twisted.internet.defer.html#inlineCallbacks