Re: About how Go is updated in Fedora

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On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 3:35 AM Alejandro Saez Morollon <asm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 5:01 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 02:22:24PM +0100, Alejandro Saez Morollon wrote:
>> > A hypothetical new release cycle would look like this:
>> >
>> >    - Fedora N release follows Go upstream as close as we can.
>> >    - Fedora N-1 sticks with the latest major version of Go that was
>> >    available on it until the release of Fedora N.
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>> >
>> > Another hypothetical approach could be using modules with each upstream
>> > supported release in a stream.
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>> This seems like the thing Modularity was invented to do, and would have the
>> advantage of being able to be consistent across a release with a
>> "baseline" version but also provide options.
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> But AFAIK, only users can select a module stream, right? I mean, packages can't be build on top of a module stream
> so new needs of package maintainers cannot be satisfy with modules.
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> I'm curious about how other SIGs deal with these scenarios...

I can't think of anyone I know personally who actually uses
"modularity" since its introduction, As Zathros said in the old
Babylon Five episode "this is wrong tool!"
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