Q: There are several dependency management tools in the wild: godep, gpm, etc. Are there any plans to provide this functionality in the core?
Brad Fitzpatrick: We don’t want to dictate a policy, so we hope the community fights it out and a victor emerges. Then maybe we’ll bless that one. Then if everyone likes it and it has been stable for a couple of years, maybe we’ll add it to the core.
Brad Fitzpatrick: Part of the reason why we don’t care as much about dependency management inside Google is that we don’t use the go tool inside Google.
Andrew Gerrand: The lack of versioning built into the Go tool incentivizes library authors to provide good, stable APIs.
Q: There are several dependency management tools in the wild: godep, gpm, etc. Are there any plans to provide this functionality in the core?
Brad Fitzpatrick: We don’t want to dictate a policy, so we hope the community fights it out and a victor emerges. Then maybe we’ll bless that one. Then if everyone likes it and it has been stable for a couple of years, maybe we’ll add it to the core.
Brad Fitzpatrick: Part of the reason why we don’t care as much about dependency management inside Google is that we don’t use the go tool inside Google.
Andrew Gerrand: The lack of versioning built into the Go tool incentivizes library authors to provide good, stable APIs.