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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: <Mikhail.Terekhov@dell.com>
Cc: <palves@redhat.com>,  <tom@tromey.com>,  <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal to remove Python 2 support
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:55:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn6j58j9.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cc41863810d45108985c68f57a3013c@x13pwdurdag1107.AMER.DELL.COM> (Mikhail Terekhov's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:39:59 +0000")

Pedro> Dropping Python 2 support is going to be an issue for us, given
Pedro> we will still have a couple years more of DTS releases for RHEL
Pedro> 7, which is Python 2.7 based.

>> RHEL 7 comes with Python 3.6 as well.

I think the issue must be that gdb is built against Python 2 on RHEL 7.

Does anyone know if there are other distros with LTS releases that do
this?  I guess it makes sense to hold off for those; at least major
distros anyway.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-18 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-15 20:46 Tom Tromey
2020-09-15 20:58 ` Paul Koning
2020-09-15 22:54   ` Re[2]: " fedor_qd
2020-09-16 13:00     ` Joel Brobecker
2020-09-16 13:53       ` Andrew Burgess
2020-09-16 15:03         ` Paul Koning
2020-09-16 15:23         ` Joel Brobecker
2020-09-16 15:34           ` Andrew Burgess
2020-09-17 17:07             ` Tom Tromey
2020-09-17 17:49               ` Joel Brobecker
2020-09-17 18:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-17 18:10                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2020-09-17 18:45                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-18  7:15                       ` vincent Dupaquis
2020-09-18  7:25                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-17 18:16                   ` Joel Brobecker
2020-09-16 15:44           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-16 17:50         ` André Pönitz
2020-09-17 17:03         ` Tom Tromey
2020-09-18 15:59 ` Pedro Alves
2020-09-18 16:39   ` Mikhail.Terekhov
2020-09-18 16:55     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-09-18 17:13       ` Mikhail.Terekhov
2020-09-18 17:35         ` Pedro Alves
2020-09-18 19:20       ` Jeffrey Walton

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