On 12 September 2016 at 21:53, Dave Cheney <d...@cheney.net> wrote: > 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) >
Yeah, 1.6 got into 16.04. > None of the LTS versions of Ubuntu ship with a supporter version of Go. > This is a policy decision by Ubuntu. > Indeed. Updating whole new versions of things into released versions just isn't how things are expected to work. Things are changing here (snaps, etc) but that's where we are. > What Go needs is an official repo, just like Chrome has. In the mean time, there's https://code.launchpad.net/~gophers/+archive/ubuntu/archive for your Go 1.X versions on Ubuntu (and probably Debian, but not tested) needs. Cheers, mwh > > 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 Distros are always out of date, sometimes hilariously.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. > -- 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.
