From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 79221 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2019 03:46:03 -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 78381 invoked by uid 89); 21 Feb 2019 03:45:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:U*gdb, H*r:4.82, drag X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (209.51.188.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 03:45:21 +0000 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46409) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gwfIR-00063N-5Y; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:45:15 -0500 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1490 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gwfIQ-0002bi-I1; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:45:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 03:46:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83a7iphkjb.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Joel Brobecker CC: psmith@gnu.org, kevinb@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20190221023904.GD14933@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:39:04 +0400) Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6 References: <20190220134506.13960235@f29-4.lan> <20190221023904.GD14933@adacore.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 > 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). TIA