On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 7:43 PM Bart Grantham <b...@bartgrantham.com> wrote:
> If I understand the post here, it seems we're also struggling with this > issue with our private repos. For us it means that in the go.sum of the > highest level repos there's references for everything, all the way back to > the initial v0.0.0 versions of every package. AFAICT, this is happening > with public modules as well. I tried using modgraphviz to visualize our > graph, it was hilariously large and it even generated a warning that it had > to be scaled down in order for cairo to draw it. > > If I can make an observation, and I may be totally wrong, this is a > symptom of the linker's dependency graph and the module dependency graph > being defined differently. For the purposes of keeping go.sum tidy the > linker's relaxed dependency graph is what I would expect, but I haven't > really thought that through. Looking at the proposal, it is clear that > this is a very hairy problem. > > In the meantime our go.sum's are growing monotonically. Does this mean > our ~/go/pkg/mod/ directories are also growing monotonically? Mine is > looking pretty heavy these days. > Yes, if you go.sum file is growing monotonically then your module cache is probably also growing monotonically. That said, for requirement cycles the only checksums (and the only module cache contents) that should actually be needed are for the …/go.mod paths, which contain the checksums for the go.mod files only (not the complete source code). So while it's true that your module cache is “growing monotonically”, the coefficient of growth should be small. (Even a small coefficient can be a problem over the long term, of course — that's why we're also working on a long-term fix in the `go` command. 🙂) -- 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/CAKWVi_S3jSWZfMFUE8P1n-MN9pSdXkXsEhYQCRFVrain00DCuA%40mail.gmail.com.
