From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 81417 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2019 17:11:14 -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 81388 invoked by uid 89); 21 Feb 2019 17:11:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Along X-HELO: gateway21.websitewelcome.com Received: from gateway21.websitewelcome.com (HELO gateway21.websitewelcome.com) (192.185.45.191) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:11:12 +0000 Received: from cm13.websitewelcome.com (cm13.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.6]) by gateway21.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A553402B7F88 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:10:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id wrrXgLzYhYTGMwrrXgdzRx; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:10:19 -0600 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tromey.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=tKhEd62riA6ZYsnoUjCjOY/LxFf4+T1XCx0EXh6oZxM=; b=Ry8I4jUsILdpAbY/hST927VZS1 58MAad/dzoV/K27MqW5b2UW3BLRt38MCbU7sZqhee/jkIoirOoHG22S+uYOW8E7yJNkvsfsWk7BBU rY2EMTpiPsiqxew9gyfpJxlqv; Received: from 75-166-72-210.hlrn.qwest.net ([75.166.72.210]:51616 helo=murgatroyd) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1gwrrX-0040DA-7L; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:10:19 -0600 From: Tom Tromey To: Paul Koning Cc: Kevin Buettner , "gdb\@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6 References: <20190220134506.13960235@f29-4.lan> <3A227E41-CC9A-43FF-A526-81FD325215E1@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:11:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3A227E41-CC9A-43FF-A526-81FD325215E1@comcast.net> (Paul Koning's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:06:06 -0500") Message-ID: <871s41jced.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00046.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Koning writes: Paul> Along the same lines, do you want to drop support for <= 3.x for Paul> some x? Python 3 is up to 3.7 now; I'm not sure if it matters Paul> much to the code or maintenance burden, but dropping support for Paul> some of the older 3.x releases might also make sense. I looked and there aren't any major compatibility hacks to handle different minor versions of Python 3. It's all stuff along these lines, and not many instances: #if PY_MAJOR_VERSION == 3 && PY_MINOR_VERSION >= 4 const char *prompt) #else char *prompt) #endif So while I think it would be fine to drop some of this, there doesn't seem to be a big benefit to doing so. Tom