On Thursday 22 March 2012, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012, Joel Sing wrote:
> > 1. Version numbering - in some ways once Go version 1 is release the
> > versioning will be somewhat like Python and in the future you may want to
> > install Go version 1 and Go version 2 on the same machine (different APIs
> > for
> > example). However, during the development phase there are weekly tagged
> > releases that are simply YYYY-MM-DD versioned. For this reason I'm
> > thinking that the version numbering should be 0.YYYYMMDD for now and 1.0
> > for the version 1 release. Continued development could then follow on the
> > 0.YYYYMMDD releases. Or should we have two packages - a "go-weekly"
> > package and a "go" package?
>
> My understanding is that the weekly releases will be a lot less
> interesting/recommended after version 1.
This is correct.
> Just plain go should suffice until and if version 2 is released. I don't
> think we need to provide a weekly port unless people are expected to use it
> for something other than hacking on go itself.
That is a fair call. Having also discussed this with a Go core team member, it
would seem that I was pre-empting things when I probably do not need to. We
can deal with this down the track if/when the need arises.
> > 2. The installation locations is going to get somewhat messy - due to
> > some of
> > the internals of Go's design everything except a few user binaries (so
> > documentaiton, libraries, source code, etc) needs to be under a single
> > directory. For now I've used the "recommended" default of /usr/local/go,
> > however this is not really acceptable for OpenBSD. Suggestions as to what
> > would be the closest suitable location? I plan on talking with upstream
> > re being able to split this so that we at least have tool/libexec type
> > binaries and libraries separated out from the docs/source.
>
> some things, like ruby, pile everything under /usr/local/lib/ruby, but
> I find that more annoying because the lib directory is already full of
> real files.
>
> I've been waiting for them to make a stable release for a while now.
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