On 19 May 2016 at 22:40, Dmitry Tantsur <dtant...@redhat.com> wrote: >.... >> You are correct that my position is subjective, but it is based on my >> experiences trying to operate and deploy OpenStack in addition to >> writing code. The draw of Go, in my experience, has been easily >> deploying a single binary I've been able to build and test consistently. >> The target system has doesn't require Go installed at all and it works >> on old distros. And it has been much faster. > > > .. this is something distributions would never do or encourage. Ask zigo for > reasons :)
Distros are having a hard time at the moment :) - much of their /obvious/ value is no longer sought: for instance compile time is cheap enough that folk are rebuilding distros just to check that the binaries are actually from the same sources! Further, the historical squashing of all dependencies into one version becomes increasing fragile as dependency chains get larger: the probability of a bug preventing a library being updated (best case - caught by CI) or breaking something without warning (typical case, little-to-no-CI of transitive reverse deps) goes up, not down. This is one of the major reasons folks doing operations often bypass distro packages (or roll their own isolated set with known-good dependencies). The idea of trusted-collections-of-packages made a lot more sense before this explosion of software we have now, much of which is high quality, and moving much much faster than distro release cycles.Canonical/Ubuntu has at least partly got its head around this with their focus for the last while on a vibrant app store ecosystem - one where shipping a single binary with vendored, static dependencies is actually viable. So yeah, some distros are getting there, bit by bit :) -Rob __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
