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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:51:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Deprecating (and deleting) user-facing APIs [was Re: Why do functions objfpy_new and pspy_new exist?]
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To: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
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> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:37:36 +0100
> From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
> CC: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> So let me propose something.  From GDB 8 on-wards, lets only support
> Python 3.x.  If this is too early, maybe 8.1 or 8.2. Anyway, we
> message this consistently and continuously to the community. Document
> it in all the right high traffic places.  What do folks think?

No, please don't unsupport Python 2.x, not yet.  I'm still using
Python 2.x based applications (e.g., bzr), and I'd like to avoid
having 2 different versions of Python on the same machine, if
possible.