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On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:24 PM, John Dickinson <me at 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

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>
> --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
> >
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> > http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/GridEngine/GridEngineCloud.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:58 AM, John Dickinson <me at 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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