dget - getting code from github

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Thu May 24 04:15:48 PDT 2012


On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 09:53:38 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:29 +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> [...]
>> 
>> "Go get" still has an issue with version dependencies, as it
>> gets latest.
>
> I wasn't trying to say it was perfect, apologies if that 
> impression came
> across. I was trying to say that there was a model of source 
> code
> organization for core+packages that as been tried and appears 
> to be
> successful to an extent better than anything seen in C, C++, 
> Fortran,
> etc. Python, Ruby, Java (and hence Groovy and to a lesser 
> extent Scala)
> are going a slightly different route, but are definitely ahead 
> as well.

Sure, I am also confident that this issue will eventually get 
fixed.

Get latest only works if you have full control over all 
libraries, latest
when Go gets more industry coverage, where this control is not so 
easy as in open source world, this problem will be solved.

--
Paulo


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