On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Russ Cox <r...@golang.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Russ Cox <r...@golang.org> wrote: >> >> By far the most important things to do with dep right now are (1) build >> something people can use and get benefit from today and eliminate blockers >> to adoption and (2) based on experience with that usage, learn what the >> eventual design and go command integration should look like. > > I've been away and am not fully back yet, but I want to reemphasize these > two lines, for everyone on this list and anyone else reading. I've heard a > few people in various forums saying things like "I won't use dep until it's > official". > > Please don't wait. Use it now. Make it possible for dep users to depend on > specific versions of your packages: convert your packages to have manifest > and lock files, and add version tags to your repos. Use dep for your own > projects, to find out how well the approach works. Let us know.
Agreed! But one important addendum: please wait until we've merged in the manifest/lock file format changes[0][1] :) I'll post another update to this thread when that's complete, as well as update dep's README to remove the warnings. Thanks! [0] https://github.com/golang/dep/issues/119 [1] https://github.com/golang/dep/issues/168 > This is all critical. If you wait to try any of this until it's in the go > command, then your feedback basically won't have any impact, because things > will be so much harder to change at that point. > > (The flip side of this is that dep should freeze these basic details so that > users aren't chasing a moving target. They don't need to be perfect. We know > that JSON is not perfect, for example, but it's fine for this trial. The > goal is to learn about the overall experience and semantics offered, not the > file format.) > > Russ > > -- > 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.
