According to folks on the Go team, they do not support golang older than 1.8 according to an exchange I had about a bug I found and fixed:
https://github.com/golang/mock/issues/119#issuecomment-337968237 Does it make sense to support anything older than golang 1.8 with Thrift based on this? Currently we test against golang 1.4.2 in trusty, 1.6.2 in xenial, and 1.8.3 in artful. We run cross tests in xenial. If we set the minimum bar at golang 1.7 then we can eliminate all the "pre-1.7" go code and x/net/context stuff the project is currently holding onto. Thoughts? - Jim
