Upgrading minimum Go version?

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

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On 1 December 2015 at 12:04, David Cheney <david.cheney at canonical.com> wrote:
> As of this morning, the unit tests pass on xenial (thanks to Andrew
> for getting them over the hump) using Go 1.5
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Curtis Hovey-Canonical
> <curtis at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:36 AM, John Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>>> Given how often people still use "--upload-tools" for things like private
>>> clouds (and is definitely the one used for local provider), I'd really worry
>>> about having a jujud on your local machine that wasn't built with the same
>>> toolchain as the one you get from "juju bootstrap" in other cases. Very easy
>>> to end up with hard to understand/reproduce bugs.
>>
>> I share your concerns John.
>>
>> We have seen several bugs marked invalid because the agent uploads is
>> essentially unknown origin because Juju is more than willing to fake a
>> version when uploading. There are also reports of Juju attempting to
>> build agents from source:
>>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1399606
>>
>> We do want everyone using the agent in streams, which have a lot more
>> testing behind them. The agent (jujud) on users of the Juju stable PPA
>> is the same that was used to make streams. This is not true for users
>> of Ubuntu's packages, and we know Ubuntu can change its tool chain
>> between the time we create official agents and it builds its packages.
>> We do testing to certify they Ubuntu clients and agents are
>> functionally equivalent to those in the PPA and streams. As Ubuntu
>> Wily+ prefers system Go dev packages to the embedded go packages we
>> provide, Ubuntu's packages will contain more divergence than Trusty.
>> We are obligated to do on-demand testing to certify a change to a
>> system Go dev package.
>>
>> Ideally, We would separate the jujud from juju-core package that
>> provides the client. Users don't get a jujud when they install a
>> client. Instead, Juju can get the desired agents from streams.
>>
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>> Curtis Hovey
>> Canonical Cloud Development and Operations
>> http://launchpad.net/~sinzui
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