Python 2.6 support
Simon Marchi
simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
Tue Aug 8 12:09:00 GMT 2017
On 2017-08-08 12:03, Phil Muldoon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Moved to mailing list for broader discussion. Currently we have
> committed code in the GDB sourceware git repository that only works
> with 2.7+
>
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21196
>
> Memory View objects were introduced in 2.7
>
> https://docs.python.org/2.7/whatsnew/2.7.html?highlight=memoryview
>
> Is our position therefor 2.7+ for Python? Or should this code be gated
> for Python installations less than 2.7?
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil
That specific issue as been fixed shortly after:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=cee59b3
I have just tried building GDB against Python 2.6.9, seems to works find
(at least it builds, I didn't test it).
So far I don't think the effort to support Python 2.6 has been
disproportionate, so I think it's still worth it to support it.
Simon
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