From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8189 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2019 23:26:41 -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 8160 invoked by uid 89); 20 Feb 2019 23:26:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HX-HELO:sk:mailout, H*RU:194.25.134.81, Hx-spam-relays-external:194.25.134.81, H*Ad:U*gdb X-HELO: mailout03.t-online.de Received: from mailout03.t-online.de (HELO mailout03.t-online.de) (194.25.134.81) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:26:39 +0000 Received: from fwd03.aul.t-online.de (fwd03.aul.t-online.de [172.20.27.148]) by mailout03.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 38C7A4224526; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:26:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (X6VBA6Z-whnDN1gWBPMUKO++cltfagpU7p5xqmO6lr4EqJkS1l0kofOWq3WuvrCgPF@[91.65.71.127]) by fwd03.t-online.de with (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) esmtp id 1gwbG8-3LJV4q0; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:26:36 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:26:00 -0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_P=F6nitz?= To: Kevin Buettner Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Jan Vrany Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6 Message-ID: <20190220232848.GB30732@klara.mpi.htwm.de> References: <20190220134506.13960235@f29-4.lan> <1e11ab8bf081211e6cd21f052244c834cd0f21e4.camel@fit.cvut.cz> <20190220151145.04ca21c2@f29-4.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190220151145.04ca21c2@f29-4.lan> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 03:11:45PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:44:39 +0000 > Jan Vrany wrote: > > > Actually, I'd even be fine with more radical move, dropping support > > for 2.x altogether. Python 2.7 support will end in less a year > > from now anyway. > > I'm not ready to drop support for all of 2.X. Out of curiosity: Why? I.e. are there realistic scenarios where people actively use GDB's Python interface (in this context here I am tempted to call it a fairly "recent" addition to GDB, the first commit seems to be dated Aug 6, 2008), but are not able to use it with Python 3.x (3.0 released on Dec 3, also 2008)? Andre'