| 18 Dec 2025 |
 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 |
| emily | (you can see the thousands of lines deleted from the compiler derivations in those and the vastly reduced conditional complexity of the derivations, but can't see the burden over time of when stuff breaks) | 13:46:35 |
 Artturin | In reply to @bake.monorail:matrix.org
I'm rather sad that end-of-life'd compilers are dropped from nixpkgs. old compilers are sometimes very useful. is it such a large burden to keep them alive? Luckily it's easy to use a old nixpkgs revision | 13:46:34 |
| bake.monorail | yeah that's a great thing about nix but also not ideal. | 13:47:50 |
| emily | (previously https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/357657, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/341714) | 13:48:00 |
