[Nix-dev] Arch is dropping i686. Should we?

[Ryan Trinkle]

I provide i686 binaries for users of reflex-platform, a nix-based
environment for developing GUI applications in Haskell.  I have only a few
confirmed users of i686, but since their machines are correspondingly older
and less powerful than most of my other users', the benefit of nix's binary
caching is especially pronounced.  Building the reflex-platform ecosystem
from scratch takes about 6 hours on a fast, modern machine, so outdated
machines (especially if they are RAM-limited, as most 32-bit systems are)
is, nearly unworkable.

On the other hand, I don't know anything about the cost of supporting i686,
so if cutting it makes sense to others and enables nixpkgs as a whole to
move faster, I certainly won't complain.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:

> On 17-01-26 08:37am, Graham Christensen wrote:
> > One person on IRC said they think they may have used it once. Does
> > anyone on this list use NixOS on i686? anyone on this list know anyone
> > using NixOS on i686?
>
> I’m using it for one old machine running the audio server
> of our hackerspace.
>
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