On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 03:16:56AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > I'm opposed to dropping i686 support. If we dropped support for systems > > that are not well supported in Guix, the only system left standing would > > be x86_64-linux. I believe it is of paramount importance that Guix be > > portable to multiple processor architectures. Even if we are not yet > > able to provide a good user experience on other systems, we can still > > keep the bulk of our code portable and multi-architecture aware. > > I whole-heartedly agree with Mark. We will not drop i686 support.
And a big advantage of i686, even if noone were to use it anymore, is that we have a large build farm capacity, since it is built on the x86_64 machines. So it can act as our "canary in the mine", warning of portability problems. Andreas
