Adds deprecation warning as suggested by Pierre Sassoulas

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2c99efca..ffbacf70 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,10 +15,14 @@
 """Setup script for astroid."""
 import os
 import sys
+import warnings
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 from setuptools.command import easy_install  # pylint: disable=unused-import
 from setuptools.command import install_lib  # pylint: disable=unused-import
 
+if sys.version_info.major == 3 and sys.version_info.minor <=5:
+    warnings.warn("You will soon need to upgrade to python 3.6 in order to use the latest version of Astroid.", DeprecationWarning)
+
 real_path = os.path.realpath(__file__)
 astroid_dir = os.path.dirname(real_path)
 pkginfo = os.path.join(astroid_dir, "astroid", "__pkginfo__.py")