Web Design: vgo Approved as Official Go Dependency Approach

Thursday, May 24, 2018

vgo Approved as Official Go Dependency Approach

#212 — May 24, 2018

'vgo' Dependency Management Proposal Accepted

Here's the Go Proposal Review Committee's Statement — In issue 208, we jumped the gun by saying vgo had been officially accepted but now it really has. It's fair to say a number of issues remain to be worked out and library authors and other Go developers will need to change some practices around using and releasing libraries as the year goes on.

Further reading:

Russ Cox's original vgo proposal documents
Huge amounts of discussion about the vgo announcement on Reddit
An analysis of vgo
GoLand IDE adds support for vgo
Hugo switches from dep to vgo - "This was surprisingly painless."

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