Re: [PATCH 5/5] Handle non-ASCII identifiers in Ada

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2022-03-01T03:28:45Z

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:59:37 -0700
>
> Eli> This script assumes that the version of Python which will run it is
> Eli> up-to-date with the latest Unicode Character Database (UCD), right?
> Eli> Is that a good assumption? Wouldn't it be better to process the UCD
> Eli> from the latest Unicode Standard directly?
>
> Ordinarily, yes, but in practice the Ada compiler uses quite old data,
> and so whatever is provided by a recent-ish Python is more than good
> enough.

How old is "old data", and how recent-ish should be "recent-ish
Python", for this purpose? Or maybe we should document what is the
oldest version of Python that currently suits the needs?