And an update: thanks to the excellent work of contributor Carolyn Van Slyck, we have the manifest and lock file format changes complete and merged[0] to dep. From this point forward the file formats should be stable enough to start committing. So, as Russ originally noted: please do give it a try!
[0] https://github.com/golang/dep/pull/342 On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Peter Bourgon <pe...@bourgon.org> wrote: > 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.
