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

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> go-ipfs is fine indeed, but that's because you've just looked at the lucky
> package!  go-ipfs vendors all the Go dependencies, which is why there is no
> extra input there and go-ipfs closure size is optimal.

Oh, we should really work towards unbundling things from ‘go-ipfs’.  Any
idea how difficult that would be?

> Now try with gx, demlo or syncthing: all of them had zero Go inputs in their
> closure with go-1.9.  Now they have hundreds with go-1.11 :(

“guix size syncthing”, for instance, returns mostly tiny Go packages,
which looks good to me, no?

Anyway, if you think there’s a problem, could you email details to
bug-guix@gnu.org so we keep track of it there?

Thanks!

Ludo’.