Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-13 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> Note that we also lost 'icecat' on armhf-linux with the 52->60 upgrade, >> because our 'rust' packages have never worked on armhf-linux. > > Wait, what? I wasn't aware. Let's track this as a bug - that's > definitely not supposed to happen. > > mrustc

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-13 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-12-12 08:40, Andreas Enge wrote: 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

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Joshua, Joshua Branson writes: > The last time I tried guix's iceweasel, it was *un-useable* on many > sites I came across. I couldn't log into my bank account (though that's > probably 'cause my bank only lets you log in via "firefox"), youtube > stopped working, scrolling was choppy,

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread George Clemmer
swedebu...@riseup.net writes: > First of all thanks for building a great OS! +1 > In my view we still have a system where encountering a bug is still far > more common than any other OS I ever used. +1 > To sum it up: lets not ruin what we have by rushing ahead and ending > beta too early. +1

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread Joshua Branson
swedebu...@riseup.net writes: > Hi > > > E.g. on 0.16.0-3.6ddc63e (a few days behind master) on an i686-install > on a x86 64 bit machine with a slow disk and 2GB RAM > 1) right now webkit freezes on youtube While, a FSF endorsed distro has no requirement to support a non-free website, as a

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> Note that we also lost 'icecat' on armhf-linux with the 52->60 upgrade, >> because our 'rust' packages have never worked on armhf-linux. > > Wait, what? I wasn't aware. Let's track this as a bug - that's > definitely not supposed to happen. > > mrustc

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread ng0
Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 659 bytes: > > n...@n0.is writes: > > > Let's not drop an architecture because occasionally something breaks for > > it. breakage is bad, yes. but it's more than just the broken packages. > > it is the way patches find their way into master. if you have more > >

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-11 Thread Andreas Enge
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 > >

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Mark H Weaver writes: >> Lets either drop i686 support or test it more and look into the missing >> substitutes. > > 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

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
n...@n0.is writes: > Let's not drop an architecture because occasionally something breaks for > it. breakage is bad, yes. but it's more than just the broken packages. > it is the way patches find their way into master. if you have more > patience then I had, you can try to address the workflow

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-11 Thread Mark H Weaver
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Mark, > >> Note that we also lost 'icecat' on armhf-linux with the 52->60 upgrade, >> because our 'rust' packages have never worked on armhf-linux. > > Wait, what? I wasn't aware. Let's track this as a bug - that's > definitely not supposed to happen. > >

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mark, > Note that we also lost 'icecat' on armhf-linux with the 52->60 upgrade, > because our 'rust' packages have never worked on armhf-linux. Wait, what? I wasn't aware. Let's track this as a bug - that's definitely not supposed to happen. mrustc works on armhf - I tested it on physical

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-11 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, In this message, I'll respond to only one of your points: swedebu...@riseup.net writes: > 3) icecat does not have a substitute available and guix package -i > icecat -n outputs: > The following derivations would be built: >/gnu/store/7wmg5qw3s45mi8ss9q3q45hfmx3j91y6-profile.drv >

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-11 Thread ng0
swedebu...@riseup.net transcribed 4.7K bytes: > Hi > > First of all thanks for building a great OS! (im writing this in vimb in > guixsd) :D > > Below is my reaction to the talk about 1.0 that has appeared on the > list. > > I see Ludo' is entuthiastic about 1.0 and hope to reach that soon. >

End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-10 Thread swedebugia
Hi First of all thanks for building a great OS! (im writing this in vimb in guixsd) :D Below is my reaction to the talk about 1.0 that has appeared on the list. I see Ludo' is entuthiastic about 1.0 and hope to reach that soon. I recently decided to try running guix as a daily system to test