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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831s41gq49.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190220234610.6d8db6c7@f29-4.lan> (message from Kevin Buettner	on Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:46:10 -0700)

> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:46:10 -0700
> From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
> 
> > 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.

Yes, I build all the GDB versions with Python 2.6 and at least
debugging Emacs some of the Python support is in constant use, as
.gdbinit that ships with Emacs uses that.

When we add a GDB feature whose support with Python 2.6 will be
problematic, I won't object dropping 2.6.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-21 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-20 20:45 Kevin Buettner
2019-02-20 21:30 ` Paul Smith
2019-02-20 21:44   ` Jan Vrany
2019-02-20 21:49     ` Joel Sherrill
2019-02-20 22:05     ` Paul Smith
2019-02-20 22:11     ` Kevin Buettner
2019-02-20 23:26       ` André Pönitz
2019-02-21  6:39         ` Kevin Buettner
2019-02-21 14:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-21 18:35           ` André Pönitz
2019-02-21 18:52             ` John Baldwin
2019-02-21  9:10         ` Dmitry Samersoff
2019-02-20 22:06   ` Paul Koning
2019-02-21 17:11     ` Tom Tromey
2019-02-20 22:58   ` André Pönitz
2019-02-21  2:39   ` Joel Brobecker
2019-02-21  3:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-21  6:46       ` Kevin Buettner
2019-02-21 14:42         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-02-21 10:45     ` Mark Wielaard
2019-02-21  3:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-21 17:55 ` Pedro Alves

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