[RFC] database with API information

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 5:26 PM Iain Sandoe <idsandoe@googlemail.com> wrote:

> One small request, I realise that Python 2 is dead, but I regularly
> bootstrap GCC
> on older machines that only have Python 2 installations.  If possible (and
> it sounds
> plausible if the job is really quite simple) - it would be good to support
> those older
> machines without having to take a detour to find a way to build Python 3
> on them first.
>

Would this really be an issue?  Just as is the case for the gperf-generated
files, the repository would contain the generated files and gperf/python
would only be needed if someone changes those files or explicitly removes
them.