This release adds compatibility with python2.4, making this library
compatible with py2.4, 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7 . In the long run, our compatibility
target is probably 2.6 through 3.2, but py3 requires some deeper changes. In
the meantime, it'd be nice to have at least one version which can be used by
2.4 (this might be the last, though).