Some distros suffer less from this. Arch is perfectly up2date in line with its rolling approach.
I agree with Dave that a supported repo is very nice. It is not unusual for companies to lag behind even on LTS installs but still having a need for updates of a particular software. mån 12 sep. 2016 kl 11:53 skrev Dave Cheney <d...@cheney.net>: > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ships with Go 1.0. > Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with Go 1.2 > Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ships with Go 1.6 (I hope) > > None of the LTS versions of Ubuntu ship with a supporter version of Go. > This is a policy decision by Ubuntu. > > What Go needs is an official repo, just like Chrome has. > > > On 12 Sep 2016, at 19:41, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 17:21 +1000, Dave Cheney wrote: > >> Distros are always out of date, sometimes hilariously. Official in my > >> parlance means "from the go team" > > > > If the official distro repository is not as up-to-date as is should be > > then fix it, either by helping the current packagers or by becoming the > > official packagers. To ignore the official repository and yet replicate > > exactly the same work seems significantly less than optimal. > > > > Debian Sid and Fedora Rawhide seem fairly up to date, at least for core > > Go stuff. > > > > Though Fedora packaging of Go is somewhat at odds with the packaging of > > GCCGo, and indeed does need fixing. > > > > -- > > Russel. > > > ============================================================================= > > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net > > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk > > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
