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Subject: Go & bundling
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:05:12 +0200
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> We will have to decide what to do about bundled dependencies. Bundling
> the source code of dependencies appears to be standard practice in the
> world of Go.

Bundling appears to be standard practice in the world.
:-)

> The compiler began supporting this directly in the 1.5 series:
> https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools#go15vendorexperi=
ment
>
> This is the manifest of Syncthing's dependencies, which are bundled in
> the same directory:
> https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/blob/master/vendor/manifest
>
> If that manifest is a standard thing, we could make a go-importer that
> used it to create new packages.

Indeed, that would be pretty cool as it effectively provides an easy way
for users to =E2=80=9Cunbundle=E2=80=9D if they want to.  Much more transpa=
rent that
what is often practiced.

> I don't fully understand Debian's packaging, but it seems that they only
> use external packages to provide 2 of 39 dependencies, bootstrap and
> font-awesome:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-go/packages/syncthing.git/tree/debian/=
rules#n42

It might be that even the bravest have given up.  ;-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.