Re: [PATCH] Add some const-ness to py-cmd.c

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>]

On 11/12/13 15:36, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Red Hat at least needs 2.6 for a while still.  RHEL 6 ships Python 2.6.
>> It would be more convenient for us if this were supported by gdb.
>>
>> Of course gdb can go its own route and we will cope somehow.
>> A few points though --
> 
> Just to be clear, I have no objection whatsoever towards keeping
> support for 2.6! I don't think it is going to be that much more
> work in any case, but just wondered whether that was necessary.
> The one transition that worries me is 3.x, and I think this one
> is going to hurt (at AdaCore).

FWIW, GDB is ready to go with Python 3.x.  I check the builds weekly
against the test-suite.  There may still be some logic bugs hiding
(like a recent one I fixed: Python 3.x's internal representation of
integers changed to be longs only; that caused an out of order logic
bug in Python conversion routines in GDB which has to support 2.x and
3.x.)  So your GDB pain, at least, should be mitigated ;)

Cheers,

Phil