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Great idea. That will make a lot of things easier. A lot of people struggle with obtaining the right dependencies as many people don't already have mercurial an

• jff 13y ago
  It puts a bit more work on you, since you have to track the dependencies, but it'll pay off the first time somebody decides to check in a radical API overhaul; you'll be able to update your code on your own schedule, not in a panicked rush because bug reports are flooding in. It also makes things easier if you decide to modify the libraries, or if the author abandons his code and someone else becomes the "canonical" source. Your code will just import "fsnotify", and you can put whatever source you prefer in $GOPATH/src/fsnotify/