From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13051 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2019 21:49:50 -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 12553 invoked by uid 89); 20 Feb 2019 21:49:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,HTML_MESSAGE,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KAM_NUMSUBJECT autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:U*gdb, 2x, aok, a-ok X-HELO: mx.coeval.ca Received: from mx.coeval.ca (HELO mx.coeval.ca) (184.75.211.21) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:49:39 +0000 Received: from mail-ot1-f45.google.com (mail-ot1-f45.google.com [209.85.210.45]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.coeval.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3FEF4436057 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:49:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ot1-f45.google.com with SMTP id 32so42780534ota.12 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:49:37 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20190220134506.13960235@f29-4.lan> <1e11ab8bf081211e6cd21f052244c834cd0f21e4.camel@fit.cvut.cz> In-Reply-To: <1e11ab8bf081211e6cd21f052244c834cd0f21e4.camel@fit.cvut.cz> Reply-To: joel@rtems.org From: Joel Sherrill Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6 To: Jan Vrany Cc: psmith@gnu.org, Kevin Buettner , gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00023.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 3:45 PM Jan Vrany 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 > >