godeps (another one) a tool by our friends at heroku

[roger peppe]

Interesting. It has pretty much the same objectives as mu godeps
tool, but executed slightly differently.

Some thoughts:

- the "save/restore" syntax is nice.
- it doesn't currently support bzr.
- the json Godeps file is nice but currently lacks some information
(it would be nice if it included the revision control system and
the revision number, if applicable)
- the "godep go" command is great, but makes for an awkward
development experience where the source code that you're
compiling and using is not necessarily the code that you see.
Updating in place has its own problems though.
- it should use full hg revision ids, not the short form.
- it has no tests.
- the ImportPath entry in the Godeps file is somewhat arbitrary - it seems
to include one arbitrary package from each repo.
- it looks like it won't diagnose properly certain unusual GOPATH
configurations (when a GOPATH entry contains a package
that is a sub-path of a package found in a previous GOPATH entry).
Probably not too much of an issue in practice.

In general, I'd say go for it - I'll be happy to have one less thing
to maintain, and the more of the community that's behind a single
tool, the better.



On 12 September 2013 02:09, David Cheney <david.cheney at canonical.com> wrote:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/8NJq6jTIpas/Vpf-KZtVu9MJ
>
> Unless there are strong disagreements, I'd like to spike using this
> tool on juju-core.
>
> Dave
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