> There's no need to guess. It works. Almost the entire Go ecosystem uses it. For a given definition of "works". Personally speaking, my "good" has not been me

> There's no need to guess. It works. Almost the entire Go ecosystem uses it. For a given definition of "works". Personally speaking, my "good" has not been met but of course, each to their own. The "Fork it if you want version x" workaround also would not satisfy me. Google has the resources, reach and authority to easily setup a central repository. If they did then I would not be surprised to see people start using it like CPAN and rubygems. You say you do not want the go tool to become complex but there is no reason the dependency management side of things cannot be done with a separate tool to keep things segregated. The current tool seems to roughly match the ruby 'gem' command (albeit with-out a central repository). I am surprised google has not created an analogue of the ruby 'bundler' gem with its 'bundle' command.