Downloading packages

Posted Mar 16, 2019 13:56 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Federated blogging with WriteFreely by ms
Parent article: Federated blogging with WriteFreely

From my reading, it's using a bunch of "go get" commands, with no version pinning in sight anywhere. Are those version strings hidden somewhere that I'm unaware of?

Downloading packages

Posted Mar 16, 2019 14:12 UTC (Sat) by ms (subscriber, #41272) [Link] (2 responses)

"go get" inspects the go.mod and go.sum files in the root of the project.

https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/blob/master/go.mod
https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/blob/master/go.sum

There's been an awful lot of thinking that has gone into this mechanism, and whilst it's not quite finished in Go 1.12, it's pretty close these days. There's a lot of writing about it all at https://research.swtch.com/vgo

Downloading packages

Posted Mar 16, 2019 14:23 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

OK, clearly I'm pretty ignorant about how Go packaging works, and it's not as bad as I had feared. Thanks for enlightening me.

Downloading packages

Posted Mar 16, 2019 14:25 UTC (Sat) by ms (subscriber, #41272) [Link]

No problem. Glad I could help!