Re: [go-nuts] compress/bzip2：Why is there only a decompression function, no compression function.

> Why has this code called Joe Tsai never been merged? I am Joe Tsai and the reason why my bzip2 encoder implementation has not been merged is because I have not had time to do it. Though I am a contributor to the standard library, curating and improving it is not my primary responsibility. In

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Upcoming Go protobuf release

The merge has happened on pull request #591 . JT On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:01 PM Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan < vdhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Can someone share some details on this code merge? Has this happened? How > can I play with it? > > T

[go-nuts] Upcoming Go protobuf release

(If you don't use Go protocol buffers, you can stop reading) Hello gophers, This is an announcement that we will be merging the dev branch of github.com/golang/protobuf into master on April 30th (approximately 3 months from now). This merge will intr

Re: [go-nuts] Should go vet catch people attempting to identify errors by inspecting err.Error()?

Hi Pietro, I don't think this is a vet issue since doing that pattern is not a matter of correctness, but more about style. This lint issue (https://github.com/golang/lint/issues/232) is tracking things we may want to add to golint to alert on these types of abuse. JT On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11