Oldest supported version of Mercurial?

[Martin Buchholz]

Compatibility is less important for developers than other users.
A useful comparison point is the version provided on various OSes.
The oldest supported Ubuntu LTS is 14.04 and comes with mercurial 2.8.
Thanks for maintaining trees - I'm a happy user.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:21 PM, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

> I'm working to upgrade the trees extension to run on the latest version
> of Mercurial (4.5).
>
> We've accumulated a number of hacky workarounds to support older
> versions, all the way back to Mercurial 1.1, and more such hacks would
> be needed to cope with recent (>= 4.2) changes to Mercurial's internal
> API.
>
> Is it time to drop some of these older workarounds?  Would it be okay
> for the trees extension (and possibly others) only to work with, say,
> Mercurial 2.2 and later?  (2.2 shipped on 2012/5/1, almost six years
> ago.)
>
> - Mark
>