[Qt-creator] RFC: Dropping support for Python 2.x for GDB/LLDB

[Alexandru Croitor]

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.


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From: Christian Gagneraud <chgans at 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.croitor at qt.io> wrote:
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> 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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