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

[Eike Ziller]

> On 27. Feb 2020, at 11:55, Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor at qt.io> wrote:
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>> 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 : )
>>> 
>>> 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?
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> Why 10.14? Did 10.14 already uses Python 3 for lldb?

All versions of Xcode 11 so far are supported on macOS 10.14, if Wikipedia is correct.

I would have assumed that this is bound to the Xcode version, not the macOS version.

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>> 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?
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>> 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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Eike Ziller
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