at one point i tried to compile some large projects written in golang in a reproducible way, and making sure that they use the exact same versions of all their dependencies.
in short: there's a philosophical mismatch between how guix and the golang crowd looks at building go apps. guix likes to explicitly represent every dependency in the guix namespace. golang has its own way of gathering the dependencies (and the nixos crowd don't mind "vendoring" the dependencies). i've also worked on the golang importer (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55242 which needs a bit more care). once it works reliably enough, then it'd be possible to import the entire transitive closure of the dependencies into an isolated namespace in guix, which would be a halfway solution between the two conflicting philosophies. for now i've abandoned that endeavour in favor of adding binary packages to my channel, but i made some notes on the way: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43872 a go-build-system patch http://issues.guix.gnu.org/50227 discussion with iskarian https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2021-08-31.log#024401 https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2021-08-31.log#180940 <lfam> iskarian: If you search for my name and "go" or "golang" in the mailing list archives, you should find a lot of discussion https://savannah.gnu.org/users/lfam <lfam> Here's a more recent message from me: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg00227.html <iskarian> Ah, I see I've unknowingly repeated you! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2021-08/msg01222.html <lfam> Heh, it's gratifying that someone else came to the same conclusion. It means I wasn't totally in the weeds -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know.” — John Holt (1923–1985), 'How Children Learn' (1967)
