From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:16:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bm5r5w13.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y38val12.fsf@netris.org>
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-12 2:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-11 7:58 End of beta soon? drop i686? swedebugia
2018-12-11 9:19 ` ng0
2018-12-12 2:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-12 9:33 ` ng0
2018-12-11 20:02 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-11 20:22 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-12-11 23:14 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-12 17:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-12 2:16 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-12-12 7:40 ` Andreas Enge
2018-12-13 12:26 ` swedebugia
2018-12-12 16:19 ` Joshua Branson
2018-12-12 23:27 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-12 22:33 ` George Clemmer
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2018-12-12 17:52 Mark H Weaver
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