> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:12 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> python's requirements are a proper subset of go's, since building go requires >> python be installed. > > No, it doesn't. Using mercurial to clone the tree requires python, > building Go does not require python, nor mercurial. > Actually, how do you resolve the VERSION file problem? Go will not build from a perfectly clean hg clone without a working "hg".
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