Re:A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go
by lobster_johnson on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:48PM
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Between "go get", Godep, Govendor, Glide, gb, Dep, and this — and I'm actually omitting a bunch of other, less popular utilities [1] — there's certainly been churn.
There's definitely a feeling among Go developers that this problem should have been solved much earlier, and that the Go team's years-long refusal to address it caused the proliferation of mediocre tools (looking at you, Glide) that in many ways made the whole situation worse.
When Dep came along, a lot of people breathed a sigh a of relief, because we finally have something okay, and we can go back to being productive instead of fighting dependency management problems all day.
There's definitely a feeling among Go developers that this problem should have been solved much earlier, and that the Go team's years-long refusal to address it caused the proliferation of mediocre tools (looking at you, Glide) that in many ways made the whole situation worse.
When Dep came along, a lot of people breathed a sigh a of relief, because we finally have something okay, and we can go back to being productive instead of fighting dependency management problems all day.
[1] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools