What kind of confuses me around these discussions is, that there are rarely complains about having to do the same thing with, say, python libraries. If I press "fork" on a python library on github, people can't just "pip install" it and get crackin'. They have to manually clone it and put it in the correct spot to be found by the interpreter, or I have to choose a new name for it and upload it to PyPI, so people can find it.
Well, same difference, just that a) in Go, the name/identity of a package is conventionally scoped via a domain name, so that we don't need to give a central authority the power over all our package names, to avoid conflicts and b) this enables a cute, additional mechanism for discovering the code-location, downloading it and storing it in the right place for the compiler to discover it. But these are *extras*. Go isn't really doing anything special or weird or different from anyone else, except that it added a couple of conventions on top of it, to make it *more convenient* than in other languages to distribute packages. Stop thinking of Go import paths as some weird and strange concept screwing up your life. It's just a name. And the whole purpose of a name is to identify; so if you change the identity, change the name too and if you don't want to change the name, don't be surprised that you can't just coopt some other packages identity. On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Volker Dobler <dr.volker.dob...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, 17 November 2017 02:43:48 UTC+1, Ally Dale wrote: >> >> [...] >> It seems like forcing project to put an assertion "Where I am". >> As our consensus, a good project is surely with "high cohesion", but >> never care "Where I am". >> > > That's true and still the case. > > The "Where I am?" arises for go get where it is an obvious requirement. > > For go build et al. a certain notion of "where is the stuff" on the > filesystem > is still needed and unarguable reasonable. > > That different projects (and a github-style fork _is_ a different project) > might or even should have different notions of "Where I am" was explained > very well by Axel. > > V. > > -- > 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.
