# HG changeset patch
# User Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
# Date 2019-05-01 22:44:51
# Node ID ab30729c735cb263a712f2fa18e3b60547fbe1e4
# Parent  0e5926e84b3b7ea97eeb36a1cb1c01f9793902c3

setup: drop support for Python 2.6

It would be a a stepping stone for the migration to Python 3 to only support
Python 2.7. Even though we don't make any big changes now, it might allow us to
remove some workarounds or use some new forward-compatible features.

Mercurial dropped support for Python 2.6 2 years ago.

diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
--- a/docs/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst
@@ -88,15 +88,13 @@ by invoking ``py.test`` from the project
 
     py.test
 
-Note that testing on Python 2.6 also requires ``unittest2``.
-
 Note that on unix systems, the temporary directory (``/tmp`` or where
 ``$TMPDIR`` points) must allow executable files; Git hooks must be executable,
 and the test suite creates repositories in the temporary directory. Linux
 systems with /tmp mounted noexec will thus fail.
 
 You can also use ``tox`` to run the tests with all supported Python versions
-(currently Python 2.6--2.7).
+(currently only Python 2.7).
 
 When running tests, Kallithea generates a `test.ini` based on template values
 in `kallithea/tests/conftest.py` and populates the SQLite database specified
@@ -202,7 +200,7 @@ of Mercurial's (https://www.mercurial-sc
 consistency with existing code. Run ``scripts/run-all-cleanup`` before
 committing to ensure some basic code formatting consistency.
 
-We support both Python 2.6.x and 2.7.x and nothing else. For now we don't care
+We currently only support Python 2.7.x and nothing else. For now we don't care
 about Python 3 compatibility.
 
 We try to support the most common modern web browsers. IE9 is still supported
diff --git a/docs/installation_win.rst b/docs/installation_win.rst
--- a/docs/installation_win.rst
+++ b/docs/installation_win.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ pip is a package management system for P
 
 If you installed Python 2.7.9+, you already have it (as long as you ran the installer with admin privileges or disabled UAC).
 
-If it was not installed or if you are using Python>=2.6,<2.7.9:
+If it was not installed or if you are using Python < 2.7.9:
 
 - Go to https://bootstrap.pypa.io
 - Right-click on get-pip.py and choose Saves as...
diff --git a/docs/overview.rst b/docs/overview.rst
--- a/docs/overview.rst
+++ b/docs/overview.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Python environment
 ------------------
 
 **Kallithea** is written entirely in Python_ and requires Python version
-2.6 or higher. Python 3.x is currently not supported.
+2.7 or higher. Python 3.x is currently not supported.
 
 Given a Python installation, there are different ways of providing the
 environment for running Python applications. Each of them pretty much
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import sys
 import platform
 
 if sys.version_info < (2, 6) or sys.version_info >= (3,):
-    raise Exception('Kallithea requires python 2.6 or 2.7')
+    raise Exception('Kallithea requires python 2.7')
 
 
 here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ classifiers = [
     'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)',
     'Operating System :: OS Independent',
     'Programming Language :: Python',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
     'Topic :: Software Development :: Version Control',
 ]
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 [tox]
 minversion = 1.8
-envlist = py{26,27}-pytest
+envlist = py27-pytest
 
 [testenv]
 setenv =
     PYTHONHASHSEED = 0
 deps =
     -r{toxinidir}/dev_requirements.txt
-    py26-pytest: unittest2
     python-ldap
     python-pam
 commands =