On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 11:01:25PM -0600, Jeremy Rand wrote: > I noticed that it looks like Tor Project is using Go 1.4.2 to build > the pluggable transports in Gitian. I'm curious why a newer version > of Go isn't used. My understanding is that Go 1.4.2 (or earlier) is > needed to build Go 1.5 because 1.5's source code is itself in Go. > Would using Go 1.5 be as simple as building 1.4.2 in Gitian (as is > done now), and then using 1.4.2 to build 1.5, and then placing 1.5 in > PATH instead of 1.4.2 as is done now? Have obstacles been identified > in such a configuration, or is it just that no one tried it?
It's just that nobody has tried it. Here's the ticket for the most recent update (to 1.4.2) if you want to make a new patch and file a new ticket: https://bugs.torproject.org/15448 _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev