envy for "Writing Go Packages"

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On 05/07/2010 04:50 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Graham Fawcett, el  7 de mayo a las 12:30 me escribiste:
>> On Fri, 07 May 2010 08:26:02 -0400, bearophile wrote:
>>
>>> Graham Fawcett:
>>>
>>>> Finally, he returns to his original application, and replaces the Go
>>>> equivalent of "import mytools;" with "import github.com/nf/mytools;"
>>>> and the application now refers to the version of mytools that was
>>>> installed from Github.
>>>
>>> Is this any safe to do?
>>
>> For certain definitions of safety: yes, or no. :) What did you have in
>> mind?
>>
>>>> (by the way, I'm overloading the term "package" here, at times to mean
>>>> a package in the D sense, but usually to mean a downloadable and
>>>> installable unit.)
>>>
>>> Python for this has Eggs, Ruby has Gems, D needs Satellites ;-)
>>
>> Satellites works for me. While they download, we could call them
>> meteorites. :)
>
> I think it's better to have a short name. What about rocks? ;)
>
Lua has rocks.