Hi all.

I'm afraid that this dropping will brokes the bare-metal debugging. AFAIK,
as most of these GDB's compiled against Python v2 .x Besides, it will be
impossible to use an 'oldest' GDB's. No?

BR,
Denis


вт, 26 февр. 2019 г. в 17:08, Michael Jackson <mike.jack...@bluequartz.net>:

> Does LLDB (on macOS) **require** the shipped version of Python (2.x) on
> macOS? I guess you could have the user install another python 3
> distribution (Take your pick, I’m not going to suggest one and then get
> skewered for it). I understand how hard it is trying to support 2 versions
> of python. For our own project we **only** support Python 3, even on
> macOS. For those users they need to install a python 3 distribution.
>
>
> We can argue/discuss what Apple may or may not do with the shipped version
> of python but in the end the QtCreator developers do actually have control
> over this one also. They _*could*_ put their own python in QtCreator…
>
>
>
> --
>
> Mike Jackson
>
>
>
> *From: *Qt-creator <qt-creator-boun...@qt-project.org> on behalf of
> Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croi...@qt.io>
> *Date: *Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 8:43 AM
> *To: *Christian Gagneraud <chg...@gmail.com>
> *Cc: *Qt-creator <qt-creator@qt-project.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Qt-creator] RFC: Dropping support for Python 2.x for
> GDB/LLDB
>
>
>
> There are developers (including Qt developers) that work on macOS because
> Qt needs to be cross-platform. And due to that, Qt Creator should support
> debugging on Apple platforms, which means that we are stuck with using
> Python 2 to inter-operate with lldb on macOS, for now.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Christian Gagneraud <chg...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2019 2:07 PM
> *To:* Alexandru Croitor
> *Cc:* André Pönitz; qt-creator
> *Subject:* Re: [Qt-creator] RFC: Dropping support for Python 2.x for
> GDB/LLDB
>
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 01:37, Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croi...@qt.io>
> wrote:
> >
> > I understand that the Python foundation will drop support for it, but it
> doesn't mean that all of the community will.
>
> Which community are you talking about? Apple community? There's no such
> thing.
> At least not in the sense of "Open source" community.
> There is a "capitalistic" Apple community, people who wants to make
> money out of anything/nothing.
> But none of this "community" is willing to contribute anything.
> Python2 is dead and is being buried, for good.
> Apple has no control over it. They can decide to maintain their own
> python2 version if they wish, after all, that's what they've been
> doing  with clang...
>
> Chris.
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