Re: Go & bundling

[Catonano]

2016-07-26 0:05 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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 ?