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From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Proposal to remove Python 2 support
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:20:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8n4bZ6huGUz5LQ+YJ10FJJXVWwtphKU7gmVyMLrAdZG-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn6j58j9.fsf@tromey.com>

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:56 PM Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Ubuntu 16.04 is LTS, and it is also ESM. ESM is Extended Security
Maintenance. The ESM means it will probably be around for 2 or 3 years
beyond the 5 years provided by LTS (i.e., 2023 or so).

It looks like Ubuntu 16.04 provides both Python 2.7 and 3.5.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/python/.

It looks like Ubuntu 16's GDB is built against Python 3.5.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/devel/gdb.

Jeff

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-18 19:20 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
2020-09-18 17:13       ` Mikhail.Terekhov
2020-09-18 17:35         ` Pedro Alves
2020-09-18 19:20       ` Jeffrey Walton [this message]

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