But it's already a given that Go is fairly opinionated in favor of github, 
no?

On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 5:52:25 PM UTC-7, Matt Harden wrote:
>
> 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 
> <javascript:>> 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. 
>>>>
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