Re: MIPS support

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 06:27:31PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote:
>> From the manual or from the CI, to let the build farm do more useful things
>> I'm not against, but is it really making maintenance difficult by still 
>> being in
>> the codebase ?
>
> It's not really a maintenance burden currently since we don't actually
> build or maintain the Guix on MIPS at all.
>
> I think this discussion is evidence that people find the situation a bit
> confusing. When I am looking into a project, I find it demotivating to
> read documentation about features that may or may not work — it's best
> when the documentation accurately reflects what the software can do.

Right, that was my point: let’s remove mentions of MIPS from the manual
and from ‘configure.ac’ so people have the right expectations.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.