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

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> I think we could drop Python 2.4 and 2.5 for gdb 7.8.  My understanding
>> is that we (Red Hat) won't need support for these in future gdb
>> releases.

Joel> Do we need to keep 2.6? Python 2.7 was released July 3rd 2010, so over
Joel> 3 years ago. GDB 7.8 would probably be around mid summer 2014, so 4 years
Joel> after Python 2.7 got released.

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 --

It seems likely that other groups will also want 2.6 support.

My recollection is that the compatibility difficulties have been with
Python 2.4 and that 2.6 hasn't presented any particular problems.

Looking at the code I see some C hacks for 2.4 and one minor for 2.6.
I'm actually not too concerned about these workarounds, the one that has
been more of a pain is that 2.4 and 2.5 don't have support for the "as"
clause to "except".

thanks,
Tom