On Saturday, 12 July 2014 at 14:43:13 UTC, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
The decision wasn't made by the Go authors, it was proposed and
initially implemented by users, then incorporated into Go by the
official high priests.
As to whether it is wise, that is must be left to opinion and
history.
Personally I like it. Good use of DVCS. It only works though
because
they gave up using Make for using the go command as a build
manager
associated with having a very strong source code filestore
hierarchy
requirement.
Sorry but I am tired of endless appeal to history / usage - by
this logic Java and PHP are very good languages full of wisdom.
And if someone thinks so we will have a hard time agreeing about
anything.
Inertia will keep everyone using this feature with no complaints
but problems remain : coupling compiler with rather complicated
fetching/caching infrastructure, lack of centralized registry to
verify contributions, version control. Regarding latter I find it
quite telling that dub has recently banned usage of ~master as
dependency version and only allows explicit tags/releases - good
hygienic decision for growing ecosystem.
