Re: plans for golang packages in z

2016-10-14 Thread Frank Heimes
Hi Michael, I think this is a great idea - because I heard from IBM that Go 1.7 contains several s390x patches that make the z support sound, and that kubernetes will be re-based to golang 1.7 at some point in time, which would allow to build it for s390x without any further adjustment. Bye,

plans for golang packages in z

2016-10-13 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
Hi, It'd be nice to switch the default golang package to 1.7 during the toolchain update part of the z development cycle. This is just a matter of uploading a golang-defaults package with a version like 2:1.7+0ubuntu1. It the stars align, the go team will release Go 1.7.2 before this happens but