From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 86345 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2019 17:47:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 86327 invoked by uid 89); 26 Feb 2019 17:47:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=describes X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:47:57 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC9DB5944F for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from f29-4.lan (ovpn-117-11.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.117.11]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBB545D6B3 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:47:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use Python 2.[67] / 3.X / PEP 3118 buffer protocol Message-ID: <20190226104755.78e2fc20@f29-4.lan> In-Reply-To: <87ftsipbu8.fsf@tromey.com> References: <20190219145110.03bccce6@f29-4.lan> <87ftsipbu8.fsf@tromey.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00445.txt.bz2 On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:13:35 -0700 Tom Tromey wrote: > Kevin> The link below describes new features in Python 2.6. In particular, > Kevin> it says that the buffer protocol described by PEP 3118 is in Python > Kevin> 2.6. It also says (at the top of the page) that Python 2.6 was > Kevin> released on Oct 1, 2008. > > I think probably the NEWS file should be updated to mention the minimum > version bump. gdb.texinfo also currently says that Python 2.4 is the > minimum, so that should also be updated. I've just posted a separate patch which does this. Kevin