Re: Go & bundling

[Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>]

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2016-07-26 0:05 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:

> 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#go15vendorexperiment
> >
> > 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 “unbundle” if they want to.  Much more transparent that
> what is often practiced.
>

The "new packages" indicated in the manifest could, in turn, have bundled
dependencies. So the importer should be a recursive one.

Like the one that Jelle is using for npm.

Right ?

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