@@ -15,9 +15,13 @@ version strings everywhere.

 This is the same problem that Versioneer solves, but Miniver is less

 than 200 lines of code, whereas Versioneer is over 2000. The tradeoff

-is that Miniver only works with Git, and has not been tested across

-different platforms and Python versions (yet).

+is that Miniver only works with Git and Python 3.5 (or above), and has only been

+tested on Debian Linux and Mac OSX (so far).

+Support for Python 2 is not a goal, as Python 2 is fast approaching its

+end of life (2020), and we want to encourage people to use Python 3!

+That being said, Christian Marquardt has a [fork that also

+works with Python 2](https://github.com/cmarquardt/miniver)

 [versioneer]: https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer

 [cc0]: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ from zipfile import ZipFile

 from importlib.util import find_spec

 from urllib.request import urlretrieve

+if sys.version_info < (3, 5):

+    print('Miniver needs at least Python 3.5')

+    sys.exit(1)

+

 try:

     import miniver

     del miniver

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@

 from setuptools import setup, find_packages

 import sys

+if sys.version_info < (3, 5):

+    print('Miniver needs at least Python 3.5.')

+    sys.exit(1)

 # Loads version.py module without importing the whole package.

 def get_version_and_cmdclass(package_name):

@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ setup(

         'License :: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication',

         'Topic :: Software Development :: Version Control :: Git',

         'Intended Audience :: Developers',

-        'Programming Language :: Python',

+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only',

     ],

     packages=find_packages('.'),

     cmdclass=cmdclass,