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Context is important here. Just one or two sections up it describes why having two different major versions of a package in a program can be a good thing (which
by Skinney 9y ago
Context is important here. Just one or two sections up it describes why having two different major versions of a package in a program can be a good thing (which is something dep don't provide, as far as I know).
- calcifer 9y agoI understand, but the implication is that somehow all the other languages out there with collectively decades of experience in dependency management somehow all made the wrong tradeoff and Go is rightfully correcting their mistake. Basically, I think these blog posts should be 80% justification and 20% explanation for vgo, instead of vice versa.
- kardianos 9y agoIn the first example, it shows how a other package managers may handle it (multiverse, clone arguments). What rsc is suggesting is that we learn from our past.