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From: Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org>
To: Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz>
Cc: psmith@gnu.org, Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF9ehCUj7nP2F+_LCXq2P-pPHXqyagU6pK+UkCqypFrn_+LoVw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e11ab8bf081211e6cd21f052244c834cd0f21e4.camel@fit.cvut.cz>

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 3:45 PM Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz wrote:

> On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 16:29 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > 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.
>
> As for myself, as another user of python support, fine with me.
>
> Actually, I'd even be fine with more radical move, dropping support
> for 2.x altogether. Python 2.7 support will end in less a year
> from now anyway.
>

Python 2.7 is shipping with at least one long-term support distribution.
While it is unlikely that anyone will notice on the native side, I know we
(RTEMS) build recent, hopefully the latest, gdb version cross.

--joel


> Just my two cents.
>
> Jan
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-20 21:49 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 [this message]
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
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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