[Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

Ryan Trinkle ryan.trinkle at gmail.com
Tue May 12 00:39:33 CEST 2015


I encountered an i686 user just the other day!  I don't use it personally,
but having solid support in Nix was fantastic, especially because older,
32-bit machines tend to be slower, which makes Nix's binary caching
functionality even more important.

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Do we still have users running 32-bit machines? It would reduce the load on
> hydra significantly if we could drop support for i686, though of course if
> people are still relying on it we shouldn't make the change yet.
>
> ~Shea
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