Re: Python 2.6 support

On 2017-08-08 12:03, Phil Muldoon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Moved to mailing list for broader discussion. Currently we have
> committed code in the GDB sourceware git repository that only works
> with 2.7+
> 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21196
> 
> Memory View objects were introduced in 2.7
> 
> https://docs.python.org/2.7/whatsnew/2.7.html?highlight=memoryview
> 
> Is our position therefor 2.7+ for Python? Or should this code be gated
> for Python installations less than 2.7?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Phil

That specific issue as been fixed shortly after:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=cee59b3

I have just tried building GDB against Python 2.6.9, seems to works find 
(at least it builds, I didn't test it).

So far I don't think the effort to support Python 2.6 has been 
disproportionate, so I think it's still worth it to support it.

Simon