Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6

Tom Tromey
2019-02-21T17:11:14Z

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net> writes:

Paul> Along the same lines, do you want to drop support for <= 3.x for
Paul> some x? Python 3 is up to 3.7 now; I'm not sure if it matters
Paul> much to the code or maintenance burden, but dropping support for
Paul> some of the older 3.x releases might also make sense.

I looked and there aren't any major compatibility hacks to handle
different minor versions of Python 3. It's all stuff along these lines,
and not many instances:

#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION == 3 && PY_MINOR_VERSION >= 4
const char *prompt)
#else
char *prompt)
#endif

So while I think it would be fine to drop some of this, there doesn't
seem to be a big benefit to doing so.

Tom