From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 60767 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2019 03:40:00 -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 60739 invoked by uid 89); 21 Feb 2019 03:39:59 -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, UD:6.x 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 03:39:58 +0000 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gwfDB-0002AP-UJ; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:39:51 -0500 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1140 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gwfD7-0002Cw-Bz; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:39:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 03:40:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83d0nlhksf.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: psmith@gnu.org CC: kevinb@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Paul Smith on Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:29:35 -0500) Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6 References: <20190220134506.13960235@f29-4.lan> 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/msg00030.txt.bz2 > From: Paul Smith > Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:29:35 -0500 > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 13:45 -0700, Kevin Buettner 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. > > 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. Not with me, though. I still use Python 2.6.x for reasons unrelated to GDB, and would like to avoid installing one more version just to compile GDB. So please leave Python 2.6 supported if it's reasonably possible.