Re: [PATCH 1/3] gdb/python: remove Python 2 support

[Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>]

Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

> Support for Python 2 is a maintenance burden for any patches touching
> Python support.  Among others, the differences between Python 2 and 3
> string and integer types are subtle.  It requires a lot of effort and
> thinking to get something that behaves correctly on both.  And that's if
> the author and reviewer of the patch even remember to test with Python
> 2.

I think the conclusion of this thread was to drop Python 2 support after
GDB 12 was branched.

Should we add NEWS entry that Py2 support is going away?

Below is a straw man patch.  I suspect the wording is probably not the
best, but this is a starting point.

Thanks,
Andrew

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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 1e53a55c259..6cde4a4abb2 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 
 *** Changes since GDB 11
 
+* GDB 12 is the last release of GDB that will support building against
+  Python 2.  For GDB 13, it will only be possible to build GDB itself
+  with Python 3 support.
+
 * Improved C++ template support
 
   GDB now treats functions/types involving C++ templates like it does function