On Monday, 27 January 2020 12:27:35 UTC+1, changkun wrote: > > Dear golang-nuts, > > As https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27151, > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853 and many relevant issues > discussed, Go download is huge. >
Neither of these issues benefits from splitting the stdlib from the compiler and/or the "runtime" (whatever you mean by that). Separating the compiler from its stdlib seems strange at least and does not help, neither to increase development speed nor to increase convenience. V. > > The Go download contains everything in the main repo. Since Go modules are > now a success, is it considered to separate all runtime irrelevant > (meaning, no need runtime support to implement, e.g. net poller need > runtime support because there is a scheduler) libraries out of the main > repo? > > For instance, the following packages can be separated to be stored in a > different repository, called std module: > > std/archive > std/bufio > std/bytes > std/compress > std/container > std/context > std/crypto > std/database > std/encoding > std/errors > std/expvar > std/flag > std/go > std/hash > std/html > std/image > std/index > std/io > std/log > std/math > std/mime > std/path > std/plugin > std/regexp > std/sort > std/strconv > std/strings > std/syscall > std/testdata > std/testing > std/text > std/unicode > > Say we have a separate repository called golang/std, import these packages > can have the same import path, instead of "std/io", go modules can > overwrite the import path exactly like what it did for " > github.com/user/mod/v2", set the imported std modules in go.mod file, > import as "io" directly. > > Thanks for reading. > Changkun > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e1f86127-bdcb-411b-b50a-991845fc3e90%40googlegroups.com.
