I like submodules, but they do only work when you're using git and only vendoring projects that also use git.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 4:44 PM Gregory Golberg <deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is wrong with using git submodules inside the vendor directory, > submodules pointing to the tag/revision of your choice? > > On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 10:24:20 AM UTC-7, Chad wrote: >> >> To be more precise, I am not thinking about a package manager but rather >> more of a kind of package registration interface. A bit like godoc. But >> working by submissions of vcs hosts links (thus allowing mirror links). >> >> Backward compatibility requirements are making things simple already: the >> latest "revision" should have the priority. >> >> On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 6:33:28 PM UTC+2, Chad wrote: >>> >>> Oh I see now. I guess we need something inbetween go get and the >>> different vcs to register and timestamp a package each time it is declared >>> as having been updated. (would still be vcs agnostic though, it's just to >>> timestamp the package files) >>> >>> Would make releasing a package a bit more of a manual process but it >>> could be a good thing. >>> >>> The tooling should be able then to decide up on the latest vendored >>> package to use. >>> >>> That would also decouple the import paths from "github" as is currently >>> often the case. >>> >>> On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 2:47:20 AM UTC+2, Dave Cheney wrote: >>>> >>>> Yes, to use the vendor/ feature project authors need to flatten all >>>> their dependencies into a single, top level, vendor/ folder. This is >>>> currently difficult as there is no common way to look at two copies of the >>>> same source code and decode if there are the same, and if not, which should >>>> take priority. >>> >>> -- > 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. > -- 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.
