Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ships with Go 1.0. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with Go 1.2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ships with Go 1.6 (I hope)
None of the LTS versions of Ubuntu ship with a supporter version of Go. This is a policy decision by Ubuntu. What Go needs is an official repo, just like Chrome has. > On 12 Sep 2016, at 19:41, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 17:21 +1000, Dave Cheney wrote: >> Distros are always out of date, sometimes hilariously. Official in my >> parlance means "from the go team" > > If the official distro repository is not as up-to-date as is should be > then fix it, either by helping the current packagers or by becoming the > official packagers. To ignore the official repository and yet replicate > exactly the same work seems significantly less than optimal. > > Debian Sid and Fedora Rawhide seem fairly up to date, at least for core > Go stuff. > > Though Fedora packaging of Go is somewhat at odds with the packaging of > GCCGo, and indeed does need fixing. > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
