A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain

Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by weberc2 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @05:50PM (#13834582)

Honestly, most package managers just bring their own problems. I'd rather commit source code than troubleshoot npm, pip, nix, maven, etc errors all day long. The only package manager I've found that works reliably has been Cargo (Rust).

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by zellyn on Thursday March 09, 2017 @06:15PM (#13834758)

There has been a lot of talking between the committee that created `dep` and folks who've implemented other systems, including Cargo. I have high hopes.

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by sdboyer on Thursday March 09, 2017 @07:17PM (#13835163)

indeed, we've talked with them quite a bit :)

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by RangerScience on Thursday March 09, 2017 @06:17PM (#13834771)

I don't think I've ever had a problem with Bundler.

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by OhSoHumble on Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:28PM (#13835836)

Me neither. In fact, I rarely have trouble with package managers. They're amazing.

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by weberc2 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @11:28PM (#13836374)

I envy you. I use Nix, pip, and npm on a daily basis and it's an uphill battle. I haven't used Bundler.

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by OhSoHumble on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:35AM (#13836989)

Well, nix looks awfully complicated. I've had trouble deploying applications using pip. Npm hasn't given me any trouble.

Bundler is lovely.

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by vetinari on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:51AM (#13837485)

Once I did 'sudo npm -g update npm', just 3.x to 3.x+1 and the hell broke loose. I had to wipe entire nodejs and reinstall from scratch.

In other cases, 'npm update <package>' doesn't work and I have to do uninstall/install. Very common with typescript, for example.

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by baq on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:14AM (#13837340)

i would be a happy man if every package manager for any language has magically become cargo overnight.

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by pjmlp on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:40AM (#13837444)

Until cargo starts to support binary crates across projects I would be a very unhappy man.

I have better things to do with my time than watching the same crates being compiled multiple times.

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by andrewchambers on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:59AM (#13837522)

Well go builds so fast you wouldn't be waiting.

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Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain by pjmlp on Friday March 10, 2017 @05:01AM (#13837531)

It is still slower than Turbo Pascal (MS-DOS). :)

In any case, I appreciate that Go at least supports binary packages, but Go isn't a language for me, given the type system decisions.

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