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>I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not here - why would a package such as this be outdated? Because of the way software is packaged in most Linux distr
by insertnickname 11y ago
>I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not here - why would a package such as this be outdated?
Because of the way software is packaged in most Linux distributions. The upstream version is frozen in that particular release.
- ForHackernews 11y agoOne would hope that being six to ten months behind the development branch wouldn't make very much difference. If it does, I'd argue Go isn't mature enough for general use yet.
- insertnickname 11y agoIt's not behind the development branch, it's behind the stable branch. The stable branch is called stable for a reason, because it's stable. You can still use the older versions and they're not bad, but the newer versions have brought improvements, and I see no reason why Ubuntu shouldn't package new stable versions when the Go team is committed to stability.
- enneff 11y agoThe Go project makes stable releases every 6 months. They are extensively tested and fully compatible with all previous major releases. But we do introduce new tools, libraries, and minor language features. Developers almost always want to be using the latest stable release of Go. (There's seldom a reason not to.)
- worklogin 11y agoGolang could host a PPA.