From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailex.trusted-objects.com (mailex.trusted-objects.com [149.202.244.204]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D234C3857C46 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 07:15:37 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org D234C3857C46 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=trusted-objects.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=v.dupaquis@trusted-objects.com Received: from [192.170.0.219] (88.127.245.42) by S76918.EX76918.lan (2001:41d0:117:dd00::95ca:f4cc) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P521) id 15.1.2044.4; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:15:35 +0200 Subject: Re: Proposal to remove Python 2 support To: 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> <83lfh85jkf.fsf@gnu.org> From: vincent Dupaquis Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:15:35 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <83lfh85jkf.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: fr-FR X-Originating-IP: [88.127.245.42] X-ClientProxiedBy: S76918.EX76918.lan (2001:41d0:117:dd00::95ca:f4cc) To S76918.EX76918.lan (2001:41d0:117:dd00::95ca:f4cc) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE 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: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 07:15:40 -0000 Some vendors are still delivering gdb with python2 by default, for instance ARM in their arm-none-eabi delivery (https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer-tools/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm/downloads). Le 17/09/2020 à 20:45, Eli Zaretskii a écrit : >> 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. -- *Vincent Dupaquis* Software security & Cryptography expert 06 24 58 17 05 /Europarc de Pichaury Bâtiment B8 1330 rue Guillibert de la Lauzière 13290 Aix-en-Provence/ www.trusted-objects.com