From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 360 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2019 22:58:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 131046 invoked by uid 89); 20 Feb 2019 22:58:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HX-HELO:sk:mailout, Hx-spam-relays-external:194.25.134.85, H*RU:194.25.134.85, H*Ad:U*gdb X-HELO: mailout11.t-online.de Received: from mailout11.t-online.de (HELO mailout11.t-online.de) (194.25.134.85) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:58:39 +0000 Received: from fwd05.aul.t-online.de (fwd05.aul.t-online.de [172.20.27.149]) by mailout11.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 95C45422C316; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:58:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (G0laJ-ZTrhwWtaVl6kpgxoeD3P7jQn297oMDJ1oheWrwwnFW18ddPu74DxyxA31wqN@[91.65.71.127]) by fwd05.t-online.de with (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) esmtp id 1gwap1-1bGvh20; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:58:35 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:58:00 -0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_P=F6nitz?= To: Paul Smith Cc: Kevin Buettner , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6 Message-ID: <20190220230050.GA30732@klara.mpi.htwm.de> References: <20190220134506.13960235@f29-4.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 04:29:35PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 13:45 -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote: > > Going even further, since 2.6 is no longer supported by the Python > > community, I'd also be okay with saying that GDB only supports Python > > 2.7 and Python 3.X. > > Don't know if anyone cares, but as a heavy user of Python support in > GDB, I'm fine with this. As long as GDB still supports Python 2.7 it's > A-OK with me. As a data point: the Qt Creator IDE which uses GDB's Python interface extensively when using GDB as backed, dropped support for Python <= 2.6 in September 2015 and never received a single complaint about it. Andre'