| 18 Dec 2025 |
K900 | Which needs to be compatible with all supported compilers | 13:21:18 |
K900 | This is all a significant amount of work | 13:21:27 |
matthewcroughan | only the things that actually get used/maintained, or that don't break often are included in nixpkgs pretty much | 13:21:32 |
K900 | Especially when we're basically banned from using new compiler features until all supported compilers support it | 13:21:44 |
matthewcroughan | or at least that's the goal, and there's enough evidence of things being introduced that don't work like that in the past being stuck in nixpkgs that people rely on | 13:21:56 |
bake.monorail | I'm looking at LLVM, there aren't a lot of patches, but yeah. | 13:22:21 |
K900 | You can go look at any previous GCC version removal PR | 13:22:25 |
K900 | Or LLVM for that matter | 13:22:30 |
K900 | To see how much code those end up dropping | 13:22:36 |