Go should not encourage distribution builder shenanigans. The effective way to solve this problem is by submitting it as an issue to the appropriate community it affects. A high search rank will accumulate based on the popularity of this issue, and the feedback (blame) will flow to the right channels accordingly.
One can argue that Fedora users won't know that the curve is unsupported, and would not even realize that the problem is Fedora specific, but this is a weak argument for a system that doesn't have standard facilities for decoding mp3 files. On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 9:18:13 PM UTC-7, Josh Chase wrote: > > Nothing is stopping them, but people aren't going to go to the > distribution docs for the Go standard library - they're going to go to the > official docs. > > On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 9:13:18 PM UTC-7, as....@gmail.com wrote: >> >> If the distribution builders can take it out, what is preventing them >> from adding their own documentation? >> >> On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 9:06:26 PM UTC-7, Joshua Chase wrote: >>> >>> Yep, that's exactly what I'm saying. >>> >>> >>> https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/gol...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ZLKQK7BOBVQVZ5B2ACQSXCOAOKLVRSTL/ >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038683 >>> >>> Supposedly patent/legal reasons? >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <ia...@golang.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:59 PM, <jcjosh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Should there be a note in the documentation that this has been >>>> removed by >>>> > the Fedora packagers? >>>> > >>>> > It would help assure developers that they're not insane when they get >>>> a >>>> > compile error claiming that something that >>>> > https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/elliptic says should be there, isn't >>>> there. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure I understand: are you saying that Fedora removed >>>> crypto/elliptic.P224 when they packaged the Go distribution? Why >>>> would they do that? >>>> >>>> Ian >>>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
