Re: So I wanted to update a dependency . .

It seems http://glide.sh is a similar build-your-tree mechanism and does support redirection. We could always do "put github.com/foo/bar into launchpad.net/bar". That would certainly break anything like "go get", so it's something we probably wouldn't want to overdo. Either that or commit to it

Re: So I wanted to update a dependency . .

The main problem with putting code into a different directory is that if there are files in that repo that reference the package itself, they'd need to be updated. So like for example, if flag_test.go imports "launchpad.net/gnuflag" to do external tests, we'd need to edit that code to import

Re: So I wanted to update a dependency . .

This is why we want to make a juju library, so we have a package that we know we need to keep backwards compatibility with. Sure, you can vendor or pin the revision, but that doesn't help you when a new feature or fix lands and you update, and everything breaks. If we have a library we try to

Re: So I wanted to update a dependency . .

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Nate Finch wrote: > The problem really stems from two go-isms - > > 1.) The standard for Go projects is to have the path on disk > representative of the URL to the project. > 2.) Every file that uses a package has an import statement

Re: So I wanted to update a dependency . .

On 12 August 2016 at 14:11, Nate Finch wrote: > No other repo should ever depend on github.com/juju/juju. I have to call this out. There is no decent way to use Juju from Go without depending on github.com/juju/juju. And backward compatibility isn't insurmountable -

Re: So I wanted to update a dependency . .

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Nicholas Skaggs < nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote: > This is a simple story of a man and a simple mission. Eliminate the final > 2 dependencies that are in bazaar and launchpad. It makes juju and it's > dependencies live completely in git. A notable goal, and

So I wanted to update a dependency . .

This is a simple story of a man and a simple mission. Eliminate the final 2 dependencies that are in bazaar and launchpad. It makes juju and it's dependencies live completely in git. A notable goal, and one that I desired for getting snaps to build with launchpad. I don't feel I need to explain