[Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

[William Kennington]

Maybe it would make more sense to only build the i686 builds if our tested
set of x86_64 binaries build correctly. We would still release with both
but it would cut down on a lot of redundant failures.

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:39 PM Ryan Trinkle <ryan.trinkle at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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