Backwards Compatibility

[isislovecruft]

Are we writing for Python >= 2.6?

What if I want to use something that is new to 2.7, should I just take the code I need and put it into utils? I ask because I want the namedtuple, OrderedDict, and Counter classes from the collections module but the later two classes are new to 2.7.

[hellais]

I think that we should keep backward compatibility with 2.6 for at least the core of OONI.

If you want to use something for a test that is 2.7 and there is no other way to do it with >= 2.6 then go for it, but keep in mind that this will impact it's usability across platforms.

[isislovecruft]

Ok, sounds reasonable. Where something new to 2.7 is small and modular, as in the case of namedtuple, I'll just add it to utils and import from there.