From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 93452 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2019 06:46:14 -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 93409 invoked by uid 89); 21 Feb 2019 06:46:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HTo:U*gdb, H*Ad:U*gdb, drag, 0400 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:46:12 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7474C307D8E2; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from f29-4.lan (ovpn-117-11.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.117.11]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4AB375D9D3; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:46:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner To: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6 Message-ID: <20190220234610.6d8db6c7@f29-4.lan> In-Reply-To: <83a7iphkjb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190220134506.13960235@f29-4.lan> <20190221023904.GD14933@adacore.com> <83a7iphkjb.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 05:45:12 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:39:04 +0400 > > From: Joel Brobecker > > Cc: Kevin Buettner , gdb@sourceware.org > > > > > > 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. > > > > +1. > > > > As for Python 2.7, let's keep it for a year or two more, before > > we completely drop it. > > Dropping 2.6, let alone 2.7, would be a terrible nuisance for me. So > I'm asking to keep that until they really put a drag on the GDB > development (which doesn't seem to be the case now). That's fine. At the moment, there's no real reason to not continue to (potentially) support 2.6. I say "potentially" because for some of us, figuring out how to test against 2.6 is really hard. However, if you continue to do regular builds of upstream gdb using Python 2.6, it'll get tested. Kevin