[Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

[Luke Clifton]

+1

This seems like a good idea.

On 12 May 2015 at 06:45, William Kennington <william at wkennington.com> wrote:

> 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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