[Canonical-tech] Handling active dependencies in Go

[Jonathan Lange]

On 8 January 2013 12:58, John Arbash Meinel <john.meinel at canonical.com> wrote:
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> [1]  IIRC it does this by playing games with site.py configuration at
> runtime, and using a custom 'py' script. It removes all default search
> paths, and sets each path manually. One could imagine a build tool
> that built up GOPATH based on explicit locations for versions of
> dependencies.
>

Correct.

If you squint hard enough, buildout as Launchpad uses it is a way of
emulating static linking for Python.

jml