D programming language specification ebook

[Russel Winder]

Thomas,

On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 10:19 +0200, Thomas Mader wrote:
> 
> Am 09.07.2011 07:13 schrieb "Russel Winder" <russel at russel.org.uk>:
> >
> > (It appears that Go now assumes you have 100% connectivity to the
> > Internet 100% of the time both for execution and development :-(
> 
> Please tell more about this or give some references I am very
> interested.

Hummm...  it was incorrect of me to say this was true for execution, as
all Go executables are statically linked.  Therefore they only require
the Internet if the application make use of it.

Development, and particularly compilation, is a different matter.  The
introduction of the ability to import from a non-local Git, Mercurial or
Bazaar repository embeds the assumption of permanent connectivity of the
developer's machine to the Internet.   This is not in the Go language
specification just now as far as I know, but is an extension in
goinstall, which is purported to be becoming part of the Go
specification.

-- 
Russel.
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