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Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6

From: André Pönitz <apoenitz at t-online dot de>
To: Paul Smith <psmith at gnu dot org>
Cc: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:50 +0100
Subject: Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6
References: <20190220134506.13960235@f29-4.lan> <b7af208f7e163c236f92c7b728804cfe06411303.camel@gnu.org>

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 04:29:35PM -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 a data point: the Qt Creator IDE which uses GDB's Python interface
extensively when using GDB as backed, dropped support for Python <= 2.6 in
September 2015 and never received a single complaint about it.

Andre'

References:
- Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6
  - From: Kevin Buettner
- Re: Proposal: Drop GDB support for Python versions < 2.6
  - From: Paul Smith

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