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by jzelinskie
4376 days ago
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I don't think they've given up on the idea considering there still is no official version management. To give up would mean that they're doing something else and AFAIK this is still best practice. The early Go team did believe this would be an okay idea, but over time everyone has noticed that it may not be for the best. However, the Go team also punted on solving the problem while thinking that the community will figure something out. The problem is that "go get" is already built into our standard toolchain. The moment you start using a dependency manager, now the official toolchain workflow is broken and you've fragmented the ecosystem. If people really want a solution to this problem they need to prod the Go team and finally get an official decision made and merged into the go tool, rather than just creating their own binary. |
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Sorry, that wasn't clear, I was talking about the language itself - the language is now versioned, but it wasn't for initial releases - they had weekly snapshots, then moved to formal versioning and gave up on the idea of being version-less. See these slides about version 1:
http://talks.golang.org/2012/go1.slide
What holds for the language holds also for libraries I think - having explicit versioned releases and being able to sometimes break backwards compatibility is really useful, esp. if others can pin whatever version they import easily and migrate at their own pace.
I think it's good people are experimenting with pkg versioning - if someone comes up with an elegant solution and deals with most of the edge cases, it'll probably get into the bundled tools like go get eventually, or people will stop using go get and use another better tool. go get is not essential for fetching go libraries, it's just the blessed method.