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dep absolutely met the needs of most/all large projects and advanced users.

• AstralStorm 7y ago
  Who is using it who is not Google? Did anyone with a big project in go even chime in, or is it that there are just no big projects yet?
  • Lazare 7y ago
    Depends what you mean by "big", but between Docker, Influx, Cockroach, etcd, all the hashicorp projects (consul, nomad, terraform), caddy, grafana, bolt, etc., there's a fair number of pretty big golang project around. And most of them seemed pretty happy with dep...
• 0815test 7y ago
  > dep absolutely met the needs of most/all large projects and advanced users. ...as long as your community dependencies never happen to depend in-turn on differing major releases of the same module. This is absolutely a show-stopper, and dep critics were right to highlight it. That these critics might be mostly Googlers in this specific case would seem to be a red herring.
  • sagichmal 7y ago
    > ...as long as your community dependencies never happen to depend in-turn on differing major releases of the same module. This is absolutely a show-stopper No, it isn't. Most other dependency management tools don't allow this condition.
    • 0815test 7y ago
      > Most other dependency management tools don't allow this condition. Ah, but how many of these dependency-management tools are in fact "corporate" vs. genuinely community-led projects? Surely this too is relevant to the controversy.