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Yuxuan Wang commented on THRIFT-5338:
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[~dcelasun] [~jensg] what are your thoughts on this?
> Proposal: Raise minimal supported Go version with upcoming 0.14.0 release
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> Key: THRIFT-5338
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-5338
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Go - Library
> Reporter: Yuxuan Wang
> Priority: Major
>
> Currently (as of 0.13.0), the minimal supported Go version is 1.10.8, which
> is the latest point release in 1.10.x (released on 2019-01-23). I propose
> that we raise this version with 0.14.0 release. There are 3 potential
> versions we can raise it to:
> 1. go1.12.17 (released on 2020-02-12). This proposal is based on the release
> cycles of the 2 projects. (Go has a release very 6 months, while thrift has a
> release roughly every 12 months, so we raise 2 versions of Go with our
> release). This would give us benefit of proper go modules support, which was
> introduced in go 1.11.
> 2. go1.13.15 (released on 2020-08-06). This would give us the additional
> benefit of better error/exception handling, as currently in go library code
> there are a few places we have to do extra work because we have to support
> pre-go1.13 (examples:
> [1|https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/7f9abb1cc0f4b2793a48f45ddfcf0d2b287cc50c/lib/go/thrift/transport_exception_test.go#L50-L51],
>
> [2|https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/7f9abb1cc0f4b2793a48f45ddfcf0d2b287cc50c/lib/go/thrift/transport_exception_test.go#L69-L70],
>
> [3|https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/7f9abb1cc0f4b2793a48f45ddfcf0d2b287cc50c/lib/go/thrift/simple_server.go#L318-L319])
> 3. go1.14.x. There's no additional benefit for this one, but this will be the
> latest officially supported go release when we release 0.14.0 (as stated by
> [Go release policy|https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#policy], only 2
> most recent major releases will be supported by security fixes).
> I don't know if any of the thrift users are stuck with an older Go version.
> Consider go has very strong backward compatibility guarantee on the whole 1.x
> tree, I highly doubt that would be the case (unless someone is stuck on a
> platform that's dropped in later Go releases).
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