Upgrading minimum Go version?

[Andrew Wilkins]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:49 AM Michael Hudson-Doyle <
michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:

> On 27 November 2015 at 09:39, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On 27/11/15 08:43, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> >> On 27 November 2015 at 02:24, Martin Packman
> >> <martin.packman at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>> On 26/11/2015, Andrew Wilkins <andrew.wilkins at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi (mostly Curtis),
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a plan to bump the minimum Go version? Some of our
> dependencies do
> >>>> not build with Go 1.2. The LXD provider only builds with Go 1.3 (I
> think?),
> >>>> and I've got a PR up that updates the azure-sdk-for-go dependency,
> but it's
> >>>> blocked because the newer doesn't build with Go 1.2.
> >>
> >> Is this something we've done to ourselves or is there a third-party
> >> library we're depending on that doesn't work with Go 1.2?
> >
> > The two main ones I know about are lxd and the new azure go bindings.
>
> By the azure go bindings you mean something Canonical didn't write,
> like https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go? That sort of thing
> sounds like a good argument for the 1.5-in-trusty SRU thing.
>

Yes, that's the one. They depend on, and are vendoring, a version of
go.crypto that doesn't build with Go 1.2.

> We have worked around other issues in other library code, like some of
> > the x/net stuff.
>
> Do you have a nice list of these workarounds? :-)
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>
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