From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 100818 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2019 10:45:59 -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 66598 invoked by uid 89); 21 Feb 2019 10:45:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HTo:U*gdb, H*Ad:U*gdb, 2x, 2.x X-HELO: gnu.wildebeest.org Received: from wildebeest.demon.nl (HELO gnu.wildebeest.org) (212.238.236.112) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:45:29 +0000 Received: from tarox.wildebeest.org (tarox.wildebeest.org [172.31.17.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gnu.wildebeest.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 537F0302AB3A for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:45:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by tarox.wildebeest.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0CC5245D2EC1; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:45:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <71f09fa3df45964479c2e9d70af139730c207edb.camel@klomp.org> Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6 From: Mark Wielaard To: gdb@sourceware.org Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20190221023904.GD14933@adacore.com> References: <20190220134506.13960235@f29-4.lan> <20190221023904.GD14933@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 06:39 +0400, Joel Brobecker 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > +1. >=20 > As for Python 2.7, let's keep it for a year or two more, before > we completely drop it. It is probably a good idea to coordinate on when to drop 2.7 support and announce it in advance so everybody has enough time to prepare. 2020 seems the agreed upon time to do it: https://pythonclock.org/ https://python3statement.org/ Since many projects already did drop 2.x support using (and testing) the gdb python 2.x bindings is already getting somewhat complicated on modern distros. Cheers, Mark