Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

>> Oh, we should really work towards unbundling things from ‘go-ipfs’.  Any
>> idea how difficult that would be?
>
> go-ipfs has more than 100 deps.  So unless we work on a recursive importer, it's
> going to be a lot of work.
>
> Harder: those dependencies can only be retrieved with gx (or IPFS itself, but
> then we have a  bootstrapping issue).  Hence my former work on the gx
> downloader.  I got stuck at an SSL issue.

Oh OK.  In general, we always unbundle software (for better
transparency, handling of security updates, etc.).  So it can’t be a
long-term plan to keep everything bundled in ‘go-ipfs’ (well, unless we
don’t add any new Go packages, in which case bundling in this specific
package becomes “invisible” :-)).

>> “guix size syncthing”, for instance, returns mostly tiny Go packages,
>> which looks good to me, no?
>
> Funny, for me "guix size syncthing" returns no Go package at all... Err... Am I
> doing something wrong?

Here’s what I see:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix describe
Generation 46   Dec 14 2018 15:56:53    (current)
  guix adb158b
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: adb158b7396cbdcda347fa298978408e531a03fd
$ guix size syncthing
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://berlin.guixsd.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
store item                                                       total    self
/gnu/store/h90vnqw0nwd0hhm1l5dgxsdrigddfmq4-glibc-2.28              37.8    36.3  41.4%
/gnu/store/ypiv8dj4lkvsnm82s639h18l87frrh5g-gcc-6.5.0-lib           69.0    31.2  35.6%
/gnu/store/nfikc8vj2whjl7012dgaj30m7y2lpv9d-syncthing-0.14.54       87.7    16.6  19.0%
/gnu/store/8g2wi0i5fgp0ylz99mckhprh25p1zgiv-tzdata-2018e             2.0     2.0   2.3%
/gnu/store/zzakf905mzla4csi1dn9qpcwmgbxj29b-bash-static-4.4.23       1.5     1.5   1.7%
/gnu/store/sj8m05bfj2902h67c4qkmvnzg2pjdgsv-net-base-5.3             0.0     0.0   0.0%
total: 87.7 MiB
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So hmm, you’re right!  I’m sure I saw go packages somewhere, dunno…

Cheers,
Ludo’.