From b47fe15b9039a165589353a1a43f6dfe3bbe3a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason R. Coombs" <jaraco@jaraco.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 10:56:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Hard fail on Python 3 prior to 3.3. Fixes #864.

---
 CHANGES.rst               | 6 ++++++
 pkg_resources/__init__.py | 6 +-----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 99041cde6b..e6fa0d66ef 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 CHANGES
 =======
 
+v30.0.0
+-------
+
+* #864: Drop support for Python 3.2. Systems requiring
+  Python 3.2 support must use 'setuptools < 30'.
+
 v29.0.1
 -------
 
diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index a323857cc9..dd561d2bef 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -75,11 +75,7 @@
 __import__('pkg_resources.extern.packaging.markers')
 
 if (3, 0) < sys.version_info < (3, 3):
-    msg = (
-        "Support for Python 3.0-3.2 has been dropped. Future versions "
-        "will fail here."
-    )
-    warnings.warn(msg)
+    raise RuntimeError("Python 3.3 or later is required")
 
 # declare some globals that will be defined later to
 # satisfy the linters.