[Qt-creator] Creator 3.1 and GDB builds without Python scripting

[Michael Jackson]

Xcode 4.2 on OS X 10.6.8 was not free. One had to sign up and PAY a fee for the use of Xcode 4.2 under OS X 10.6.8 which was needed for Mac App store submissions. The previous Xcode 3.x was/is freely available but that version has the now very old GDB with NO python support. I would _like_ to say keep the GDB support going for OS X because I compile on OS X 10.6.8 for our product releases but my everyday coding is under OS X 10.8 and so I use Xcode 4.6 with LLDB support in QtCreator 3.x but my vote is that if removing the non-python GDB support will bring better support for LLDB then I am all for it.

Mike J.

On Dec 30, 2013, at 8:51 PM, André Pönitz <andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> 
> Old story, next attempt: For Creator 3.1 I'd like to discontinue
> support for GDB builds that do not have Python scripting enabled.
> 
> This will allow for removal of almost 2/3 of the GDB specific parts of the
> debugger plugin including the compiled variety of the debugging helpers and
> the use of GDB's "varobj" mechanism to create displayed data which is
> clumsy to use for non-trivial displays, causes lots of frontend<->GDB
> roundtrips for bigger structures and which is the main obstacle for further
> cross-backend re-use of code, with the obvious consequences for both
> maintenance and feature development.
> 
> Right now I believe this does not affect anyone really badly anymore.
> 
> On Linux and Windows/MinGW, we have formally required GDB version 7.2 with
> Python since Qt Creator 2.5, i.e. for five minor releases when 3.1 will be
> out. The only change there would be that there won't be "accidentally"
> working non-Python setups anymore.
> 
> On Mac the change will affect the line of Apple's Python-less GDB builds.
> Those builds have been the prefered backend for Qt Creator on Mac pretty
> much until now, but are now abandoned and replaced by LLDB "upstream". Qt
> Creator's LLDB support is still a bit in the fledgling stage, but reported
> generally usable with 3.0, and growing. So Mac setups providing some
> version of LLDB will be covered. According to Wikipedia that goes down to
> Xcode 4.2/Mac OS X 10.6, theoretically, some practical evidence on such
> setups would be appreciated.  
> 
> _FSF_ GDB on Mac will be unaffected, and so are the mobile platforms
> (iOS is LLDB-only anyway, BlackBerry and Android have Python-enabled GDBs)
> 
> Andre'
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