On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM Jan Drögehoff <sentrycraft123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM Jan Drögehoff sentrycraft123@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I'm generally in favor of this, especially since it would establish a status quo that could benefit other languages where the usual way of dealing with dependencies is incompatible with distributions. > > > You are aware that 1) this request is explicitly targeting Golang > > packages only, and 2) building with vendored dependencies is *already* > > allowed (regardless of language ecosystem) when not doing so would > > place an undue maintenance burden on the packager? > > yes to 1, I think I know what you are talking about with 2 but as I read the main guidelines you are allowed to vendor dependencies but it is very much discouraged, though I am unsure where you got the burden part from. It is discouraged, yes, but it is already *allowed* so long as you handle it correctly. The change proposed here for Go is only about changing the default approach from "try to build without vendoring dependencies" to "build with vendored dependencies". I'm not sure what it is that you're actually arguing against here? Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
