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

Paul Koning <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:06:06 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel
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> On Feb 20, 2019, at 4:29 PM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> 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.

I concur.

Along the same lines, do you want to drop support for <= 3.x for some x?  Python 3 is up to 3.7 now; I'm not sure if it matters much to the code or maintenance burden, but dropping support for some of the older 3.x releases might also make sense.

	paul