Tong Sun "I've never seen [the Author delete the library] happen before."
It happened recently. Take a look at jteeuwen/go-bindata: Hard fork of jteeuwen/go-bindata because it disappeared, Peter On Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 10:01:32 AM UTC-4, Tong Sun wrote: > > I've never seen that happen before, but in case it does, only new > environments will fail, i.e., those has been building fine will still be > building fine. I.e. it's quite easy to correct. > > So I personally think that it is really a high price to pay for something > that may *never* happen. > Of course, not everyone agree with me, as I've seen someone even worries > that go yaml (gopkg.in/yaml.v2) will go away someday, and insists > vendering it. > > > > On Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 9:50:13 AM UTC-4, nafis wrote: >> >> How about the Author delete the library. >> >> On Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 5:49:36 AM UTC+6, Eric Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Long term, I suspect you're better off without the vendoring. >>> >>> Specifically, I suggest looking into automating your libraries tests >>> with the earliest possible versions of supported dependencies, and the >>> latest versions of dependencies. >>> >>> With a tool like vgo, it should be possible to have two versions of your >>> lock file that your build / test cycle can switch between. If a project >>> adds backwards compatible changes, they you can test across major versions >>> as well. >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 11:43:04 AM UTC-7, nafis wrote: >>>> >>>> Suppose I'm making a library and it does reference some other library >>>> not part of the standard library. I want to vendor those so that my >>>> library >>>> doesn't fail if the other 3rd party developer deletes their library or >>>> major changes of their library(I know this sound like stupid design). And >>>> I >>>> want to push the vendor folder on my library repo. My question: Is >>>> this the bad idea keep a vendor folder on the library repo. >>>> >>>> Thank you for your time. >>>> >>> -- 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.
