Go Packaging Proposal Process
Go ecosystem is a complete mess. I understand what Go maintainers tried to do, but Go isn't like Gnome lib,or Linux core lib where dependencies are stable. And the "just vendor" stuff pushed by some Go pundits is stupid. Clutter or Gtk don't vendor Gdk or Glib. So Go right now is about everybody reinventing the wheel, because you can't write reproducible build with 3rd party packages thus create an ecosystem with Go get. The solution ? deprecate Go get in favor of a new tool that supports at least fetching tags for packages. Project based build Tools (like Gb) work for apps, they don't work for libraries. Glide and co have a big problem : everybody is using a different package manager that is incompatible with others.<p>The question isn't being solved yet because to solve it seriously it would require to change how the language works at first place.