I would suggest we remove this particular dependency. Although it is nice to have symbolic names, go 1.6 is the latest version that is in a LTS ubuntu release, so I suspect it is the easiest version for a lot of people to have available.
The symbol in question is just an integer constant. David On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:18 AM aditi hilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Noted. The docs will be updated with the newer version. > > thanks, > aditi > > > On Mar 8, 2017, at 3:36 AM, Simon Ratner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Note to devs: docs still say "The Newt tool requires Go version 1.5 or > > later." > > http://mynewt.apache.org/latest/newt/install/newt_linux/ > > > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Simon Ratner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hey Bill, > >> > >> I ran into that recently, grab a newer version of go. > >> This constant was added in 1.7: https://golang.org/doc/go1.7#io > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Bill Rees <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> I'm in a virtual box environment with Ubuntu yakkety and have > installed go > >>> 1.6. When I build newt ala "go install" I see an error: "undefined > >>> io.SeekCurrent" for which I can find no value. > >>> > >>> Is this a sign of a bad install? A missing module? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Bill Rees > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> ___________________________________________ > >>> : +1 (650) 533-4054 <(650)%20533-4054> <(650)%20533-4054> > >>> : zGlue Inc., Mountain View, CA > >>> ___________________________________________ > >>> > >> > >> > >
