Drop support for python 3.4/3.5; make use of smmap 5.0 which does the same

Author: Byron

doc/source/changes.rst

@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 Changelog
 #########
 
+*****
+4.0.8
+*****
+
+* drop support for python 3.4 and 3.5 due to EOL
+* Updated upper bound for smmap requirement in setup.py
+  (`#69 <https://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitdb/issues/76>`_)
+
 *****
 4.0.7
 *****

gitdb/__init__.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def _init_externals():
 __author__ = "Sebastian Thiel"
 __contact__ = "[email protected]"
 __homepage__ = "https://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitdb"
-version_info = (4, 0, 7)
+version_info = (4, 0, 8)
 __version__ = '.'.join(str(i) for i in version_info)
 
 

setup.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 __author__ = "Sebastian Thiel"
 __contact__ = "[email protected]"
 __homepage__ = "https://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitdb"
-version_info = (4, 0, 7)
+version_info = (4, 0, 8)
 __version__ = '.'.join(str(i) for i in version_info)
 
 setup(
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
     packages=('gitdb', 'gitdb.db', 'gitdb.utils', 'gitdb.test'),
     license="BSD License",
     zip_safe=False,
-    install_requires=['smmap>=3.0.1,<5'],
+    install_requires=['smmap>=3.0.1,<6'],
     long_description="""GitDB is a pure-Python git object database""",
-    python_requires='>=3.4',
+    python_requires='>=3.6',
     # See https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers
     classifiers=[
         "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@
         "Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X",
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",