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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Matthieu Longo <matthieu.longo@arm.com>
Cc: tromey@adacore.com, kevinb@redhat.com,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tdevries@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Require Python 3.4
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:06:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wm7w4jht.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14696e4d-3b6a-4538-ba21-d58ce7de02fc@arm.com> (message from Matthieu Longo on Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:33:44 +0100)

> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:33:44 +0100
> Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
> From: Matthieu Longo <matthieu.longo@arm.com>
> 
> What is the reason for targeting Python 3.4 as the minimal supported 
> version ?
> What is the distribution with such an old Python ?

The oldest Python 3 version that supports Windows XP is 3.44.  I
believe this is one of the reasons (f not _the_ reason): GDB still
attempts not to drop support of Windows XP.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-25 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-29 17:55 Tom Tromey
2025-05-29 23:31 ` Kevin Buettner
2025-05-30 13:11   ` Tom Tromey
2025-07-25  9:33     ` Matthieu Longo
2025-07-25  9:38       ` Tom de Vries
2025-07-25 11:06       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2025-05-30  7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii

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