From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: End of beta soon? drop i686? Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:16:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87bm5r5w13.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87y38val12.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59083) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWu5Z-0004Gi-Ev for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:17:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWu5V-0004U7-GZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:17:29 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o53.zoho.com ([135.84.80.218]:21811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWu5V-0004S9-64 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:17:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <87y38val12.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver writes: >> Lets either drop i686 support or test it more and look into the missing >> substitutes. > > I'm opposed to dropping i686 support. If we dropped support for systems > that are not well supported in Guix, the only system left standing would > be x86_64-linux. I believe it is of paramount importance that Guix be > portable to multiple processor architectures. Even if we are not yet > able to provide a good user experience on other systems, we can still > keep the bulk of our code portable and multi-architecture aware. I whole-heartedly agree with Mark. We will not drop i686 support. -- Ricardo sent not too far away from my i686 GuixSD machine