Hi, I have no i686 around here anymore since more than a year. If there is no real need for it anymore we should stop supporting it.
greetings tpowa 2016-12-13 1:51 GMT+01:00 Gaetan Bisson <bis...@archlinux.org>: > [2016-12-12 21:51:31 +0100] Bartłomiej Piotrowski: > > In September we discussed upgrading the default -march value for > > packages to include SSE2 (and possibly more instructions). I think the > > general consensus was that we don't agree what we should do and we just > > left the problem intact. > > > > Semi-necrobumping that thread, I want to bring back one proposal – let's > > deprecate i686 architecture. All my machines at home and work are > > x86_64. Building i686 packages is a chore I'm less and less willing to > > do, and I boot up a 32-bit virtual machine only if bug has been reported > > against that architecture. No, I don't do even smoke tests – I assume > > that i686 works if x86_64 does. (Don't beat me up too hard for that.) > > > > To back up my idea, our completely unreliable pkgstats data says that > > 8.53% came from i686 installs, but only a little over 4% is incompatible > > with amd64. Obviously there is no way to verify this data, but I suspect > > that these numbers are even lower in the reality. We're just wasting our > > time. > > > > I'd like to set a certain date of dropping i686 completely. During that > > time, community and/or interested packagers could come up with either > > automated build solution, making it "tier 2" architecture. Otherwise it > > would just die of natural cause. > > That sounds great to me. > > How about June 1st, 2017? It's about six months for now, surely that's > enough time to see things coming for those who still care about i686. > > Cheers. > > -- > Gaetan > -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org