Re:Go modules and the domain expiry problem
by j1elo on Sunday November 12, 2023 @12:45PM
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Or maybe not.
"google/uuid" tells you nothing about the owner. It might be Google, or it might be me, who squatted the name early on.
"github.com/google/uuid" would be much difficult to squat. Also, it tells you that this comes from the Google user in GitHub, which is something much easier to verify.
"code.google.com/go/UUID" would be even more of a guarantee. But I guess they decided relying on GitHub to host their Go packages was good enough.
"google/uuid" tells you nothing about the owner. It might be Google, or it might be me, who squatted the name early on.
"github.com/google/uuid" would be much difficult to squat. Also, it tells you that this comes from the Google user in GitHub, which is something much easier to verify.
"code.google.com/go/UUID" would be even more of a guarantee. But I guess they decided relying on GitHub to host their Go packages was good enough.