From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6832 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2013 15:12:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 6788 invoked by uid 89); 11 Dec 2013 15:12:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from Unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:12:35 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rBBFCQ2j003752 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:12:26 -0500 Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-93.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.93]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rBBFCP45029954 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:12:25 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Doug Evans , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Sergio Durigan , Jan Kratochvil Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add some const-ness to py-cmd.c References: <871u1k5srh.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87fvq03waa.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20131211075328.GA3227@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:12:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20131211075328.GA3227@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:53:28 +0100") Message-ID: <87zjo72zhj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2013-12/txt/msg00430.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker 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