From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 55760 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2017 12:29:58 -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 55739 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jun 2017 12:29:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=phil, policy X-HELO: mail-wr0-f176.google.com Received: from mail-wr0-f176.google.com (HELO mail-wr0-f176.google.com) (209.85.128.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:29:57 +0000 Received: by mail-wr0-f176.google.com with SMTP id 36so19140459wry.3 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 05:30:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XZDQYndoLF5ushdd/mMWaouMBrU5hwWVumz+vcXrR+g=; b=HUkOofAQGZsl0pYxC14bsnxIubS+SylvNjwGzDCMcveOzEOr70kUzDb55HzCwTjfVP SN2MqnrX2bKmjLUEbyM0AhpGJPOWrr6y4myUgQuJFEuh+rRRVMNVx801KHpGtkC4ZLI3 mGTHBJd/lQ464G1W5euT+31Rou8vE8YsBK/FURzLG7sVaKUEpvu3NxqBzC6wbOZD4qHg b0Q55wk8jY/+39ziPaNrG8I7RjYA83+VwoERNCi3vMITokYQJLclYqk18tEGqXAYZ0zs 1LQOdr4ZK348AgUrnrSLR2QjXQmU4z3gOdWDSpbGJ4xxgWIemkt3SXYmiiXs59UE9neK Kc+g== X-Gm-Message-State: AKS2vOzmjfL29AhgWAvVJ4m7YfrBFRCjJ0F9sXE9QR11xE3x3ml4Ncf5 nECpCsyFx80DW0yk7Fl+bA== X-Received: by 10.223.157.25 with SMTP id k25mr3061535wre.156.1497356998428; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 05:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2a02:c7f:ae15:7800:4685:ff:fe66:9f4? ([2a02:c7f:ae15:7800:4685:ff:fe66:9f4]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h12sm9413339wrc.43.2017.06.13.05.29.56 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 05:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix python compatibility with old versions of GDB To: Tom Tromey , Simon Marchi Cc: Orgad Shaneh , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <227db26304444bfb5ed8f699ab67e7fd@polymtl.ca> <87o9tsozn6.fsf@pokyo> From: Phil Muldoon Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:29:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87o9tsozn6.fsf@pokyo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00380.txt.bz2 On 13/06/17 13:11, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi writes: > >>> Practically the data-directory is mostly backwards-compatible, except >>> this small part which I found (there might be others which I didn't >>> find). With this patch, I'm able to run GDB 7.8 with the latest >>> data-directory. > >>> Is there a reason not to accept it? > > Simon> I'd like to know what other maintainers think about this. We may have > Simon> already faced this situation before and taken a decision which I'm not > Simon> aware of. Otherwise, we need to take it now. > > I think it doesn't make sense to have a policy allowing the sharing of > installed Python scripts across versions. If this were a policy then it > would mean that the scripts could never use new features of gdb's Python > layer -- but that's clearly an absurd result. I agree. It would make maintenance a nightmare, moreso with supporting Python 2 and 3. Cheers Phil