| 18 Dec 2025 |
 bake.monorail | but yeah, I was thinking of making a PR to enable manually overriding compiler versions (see the versions.nix thing above), letting whoever hacks with handle it, but at least in a way that does not require forking. | 13:44:32 |
 emily | it is maintenance burden however you slice it, and I can attest that it was a very frustrating way to spend our limited maintenance resources for very little benefit | 13:44:37 |
| bake.monorail | fair fair | 13:45:51 |
| emily | I considered https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/440273, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/435019, and all the PRs linked from them to be worth the effort to do compared to what carrying many EOL compilers has been like, despite them taking like 2 months in total | 13:46:00 |
