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

[Marco Maggesi]

I use nixos i686 on virtualbox, xen and on some old hardware.
For some applications, i686 binaries require less memory and are
slightly faster.
>From my personal use, the dismiss of support of i686 would be a loss.
Marco

2017-01-26 16:46 GMT+01:00 Ryan Trinkle <ryan.trinkle at gmail.com>:
> 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 from scratch takes about 6 hours on a fast, modern machine, so outdated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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