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

Dmitry Samersoff <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:10:15 +0300

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Andre,

On 21.02.2019 2:28, André Pönitz wrote:

> I.e. are there realistic scenarios where people actively use GDB's Python
> interface (in this context here I am tempted to call it a fairly "recent"
> addition to GDB, the first commit seems to be dated Aug 6, 2008), but are
> not able to use it with Python 3.x (3.0 released on Dec 3, also 2008)?

Yes.

Lots of embedded staff is still on Python 2.x and maintaining separate
version of Python just for gdb is problematic.