Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] gdb/python: remove Python 2 support

[Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>]

On 2022-03-21 15:04, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2022-03-21 10:58, Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches wrote:
>> Here, I think we should say "only against Python 3", or say "Python 2
>> is not supported as of GDB 13", or something to that effect.  Because
>> it is otherwise strange to mention Python 3, it sounds "out of the
>> blue".
> 
> I'll say "can only be built against Python 3" then.  I'd rather not say
> "GDB 13", since this text will live for many GDB versions.  Updated
> locally.

We document in gdb/README the minimum supported version, so I think you
could drop the "Python 3" reference completely if you wanted.

Speaking of which, said gdb/README note should also be updated, as is documents
that the oldest supported version is 2.6:

`--with-python[=PYTHON]'
     Build GDB with Python scripting support.  (Done by default if
     libpython is present and found at configure time.)  Python makes
     GDB scripting much more powerful than the restricted CLI
     scripting language.  If your host does not have Python installed,
     you can find it on `http://www.python.org/download/'.  The oldest
     version of Python supported by GDB is 2.6.  The optional argument
     PYTHON is used to find the Python headers and libraries.  It can
     be either the name of a Python executable, or the name of the
     directory in which Python is installed.