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

[Alexandru Croitor]

> On 27. Feb 2020, at 11:52, Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> wrote:
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>> On 27. Feb 2020, at 11:27, Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor at qt.io> wrote:
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>>> On 26. Feb 2020, at 23:09, André Pönitz <apoenitz at t-online.de> wrote:
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>>> Times have changed.  Mac/LLDB is now on 3.x.
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>> Hi,
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>> I'll be annoying, and once again point out that this will exclude macOS <= 10.14 developers : )
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>> What's our current minimum supported macOS version for Qt Creator?
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> Our binaries are built with Qt 5.14.1, and therefore support macOS 10.13.
> You still _can_ build Qt Creator yourself with Qt 5.11.
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>> Would it perhaps make sense to drop Py2 support when the minimum is 10.15?
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> Enough when the minimum is 10.14, right?

Why 10.14? Did 10.14 already uses Python 3 for lldb?

> So I suppose that would be end of this year after macOS 10.16 is out,
> == Qt Creator 4.14.
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> So, how about dropping LLDB/python2 support with Qt Creator 4.14?
> 
> Br, Eike
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>> Otherwise we'd get an interesting state of being able to build applications with Qt Creator on an older macOS that Qt Creator supports, but not debug them.
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