On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:24 PM, John Dickinson <m...@not.mn> wrote: > That's an interesting point. I'm not very familiar with Golang itself yet, > and I haven't yet had to manage any Golang projects in prod. These sorts of > questions are great! > > See: https://golang.org/doc/go1compat
> If a distro is distributing pre-compiled binaries, isn't the compatibility > issue up to the distros? OpenStack is not distributing binaries (or even > distro packages!), so while it's an important question, how does it affect > the question of golang being an ok language in which to write openstack > source code? > I mean a commercial OpenStack distro... OpenStack does not distribute binaries today (because Python is an interpreted language), but Go is a compiled language. So may be I should simplify my question -- in what form should a commercial OpenStack distro distribute OpenStack components written in Go? Rayson ================================================== Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/GridEngine/GridEngineCloud.html > > --John > > > > > On 3 May 2016, at 9:16, Rayson Ho wrote: > > > I like Go! However, Go does not offer binary compatibility between point > > releases. For those who install from source it may not be a big issue, > but > > for commercial distributions that pre-package & pre-compile everything, > > then the compiled Go libs won't be compatible with old/new releases of > the > > Go compiler that the user may want to install on their systems. > > > > Rayson > > > > ================================================== > > Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine > > http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ > > http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/GridEngine/GridEngineCloud.html > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:58 AM, John Dickinson <m...@not.mn> wrote: > > > >> TC, > >> > >> In reference to > >> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/093680.html > >> and Thierry's reply, I'm currently drafting a TC resolution to update > >> > http://governance.openstack.org/resolutions/20150901-programming-languages.html > >> to include Go as a supported language in OpenStack projects. > >> > >> As a starting point, what would you like to see addressed in the > document > >> I'm drafting? > >> > >> --John > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > __________________________________________________________________________ > >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > >> Unsubscribe: > openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >> > >> > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > > Unsubscribe: > openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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