From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org (eggs.gnu.org [IPv6:2001:470:142:3::10]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CFFA7393C863 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:44:54 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org CFFA7393C863 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=gnu.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=eliz@gnu.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42999) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIytp-0002rW-H3; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:44:53 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2571 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kIyto-0006ef-AF; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:44:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 21:45:04 +0300 Message-Id: <83lfh85jkf.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, paulkoning@comcast.net, tom@tromey.com, gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <20200917181005.GA2839196@host1.jankratochvil.net> (message from Jan Kratochvil on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:10:05 +0200) Subject: Re: Proposal to remove Python 2 support 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> <20200917181005.GA2839196@host1.jankratochvil.net> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, 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 18:44:56 -0000 > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:10:05 +0200 > From: Jan Kratochvil > Cc: Joel Brobecker , paulkoning@comcast.net, > tom@tromey.com, gdb@sourceware.org > > 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.