Re: Proposal to remove Python 2 support
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> From: vincent Dupaquis <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:15:35 +0200 > > 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). To clarify, I didn't mean to say that we should decide not to have new features supported for Python 2. What I wrote was written in response to an opinion that keeping Python 2 supported might induce some heavy development and maintenance costs. I then said that we could decide not to support some of the newer features for Python 2, because doing that would be better than dropping Python 2 support completely. FTR, I'm the last person to be happy with dropping Python 2 support: I have it installed, and I'm building GDB with Python 2. I even volunteered to be the tester of Python 2.6 usage in GDB, because that is even older.