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Re:Problems with Go Get by stock_toaster on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:08PM (#9508683) 

  > go get has never claimed to be versioning solution so
  > while I understand why people make shallow comparisons
  > to pip/npm/cpan and assume that it does and complain that
  > it does it badly (including this article), the reality is
  > that go get is not a versioning tool at all.
The claim is that by not also solving versioning, go get is an incomplete tool. Stating that it was never intended to solve versioning is kind of beside the point.
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Re:Problems with Go Get by 0x74696d on Thursday May 07, 2015 @08:32PM (#9509351)
> The claim is that by not also solving versioning, go get is an incomplete tool. Stating that it was never intended to solve versioning is kind of beside the point.

You've summed up the entire reasoning behind my post more succinctly than I could. Thanks.

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