From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-1.mimecast.com (us-smtp-1.mimecast.com [205.139.110.61]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D720638930F5 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:10:14 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org D720638930F5 Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-174-xYsOqFDVNLqPIZ3u-Ax4oQ-1; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:10:10 -0400 X-MC-Unique: xYsOqFDVNLqPIZ3u-Ax4oQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D02285C70A; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host1.jankratochvil.net (ovpn-112-59.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.59]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DE0755772; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:10:05 +0200 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Joel Brobecker , paulkoning@comcast.net, tom@tromey.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Proposal to remove Python 2 support Message-ID: <20200917181005.GA2839196@host1.jankratochvil.net> References: <87sgbiahur.fsf@tromey.com> <3415E02F-C35C-4C72-8C9A-C141E024F3AC@comcast.net> <1600210499.574691995@f12.my.com> <20200916130013.GC5797@adacore.com> <20200916135312.GB3030@embecosm.com> <20200916152329.GD5797@adacore.com> <20200916153400.GC3030@embecosm.com> <87lfh872n6.fsf@tromey.com> <20200917174940.GB30765@adacore.com> <83o8m45lih.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <83o8m45lih.fsf@gnu.org> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: gdb@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:10:15 -0000 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. Jan