D programming language specification ebook

[Thomas Mader]

Thanks for explaining this, Russel.
For me this looks like a nice feature even though i realize that it can and
will be frustrating if people use it the wrong way.
I can imagine that it is helpful for importing different tags or branches of
something for testing purposes and the like. But only for temporary use,
when this is used for a release version of a program than I see it
definitely negative.

Thomas
Am 10.07.2011 10:03 schrieb "Russel Winder" <russel at russel.org.uk>:
> 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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