Re: Proposal to remove Python 2 support
vincent Dupaquis <[email protected]>
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Some vendors are still delivering gdb with python2 by default, for instance ARM in their arm-none-eabi delivery (https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer-tools/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm/downloads). Le 17/09/2020 à 20:45, Eli Zaretskii a écrit : >> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:10:05 +0200 >> From: Jan Kratochvil <[email protected]> >> Cc: Joel Brobecker <[email protected]>, [email protected], >> [email protected], [email protected] >> >> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:03:02 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> But that kind of thing is inevitable when one relies on external >>> libraries for some of our features. For example, suppose that the >>> source-highlight package learns to highlight sources better -- these >>> improvements will only available to users if they upgrade their >>> installed source-highlight library before building GDB. >> That is different. >> >> There will always be installed only one version of source-highlight package. >> >> With Python there can be (and currently commonly is) installed both Python >> 2 & 3 and it is sometimes tricky to convince a package to use the other >> version than the one it uses by default. > Sorry, I don't think I understand how what you say is relevant to what > I wrote. > > What I tried to convey is that having some features in GDB that only > work if you build GDB with Python 3 is not an acute problem. -- *Vincent Dupaquis* Software security & Cryptography expert 06 24 58 17 05 /Europarc de Pichaury Bâtiment B8 1330 rue Guillibert de la Lauzière 13290 Aix-en-Provence/ www.trusted-objects.com <http://www.trusted-objects.com>