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No, it doesn't.  Several applications written in go are already packaged
for Debian (for example).

Indeed the equivalent of "installing from master/pip" (ie: not using distro
packages) is _much_ easier in go, since there is no need for the equivalent
of venvs.  Like all compiled languages, there is a separate compile step
required.

 - Gus

On Tue, 10 May 2016 at 16:44 Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

> From: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
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> Date: Tuesday 10 May 2016 at 01:43
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] supporting Go
>
> Go is a production language used by Google, Dropbox, many many web
> startups, and in fact Fortune 500 companies.
>
> Using a package manager won't buy us anything, and like Clint raised, the
> Linux distros are way too slow in picking up new Go releases. In fact, the
> standard way of installing Rust also does not use a package manager:
>
> https://www.rust-lang.org/downloads.html
>
>
> > I have nothing against golang in particular but I strongly believe that
> mixing 2 languages within a project is always the wrong decision
>
> It would be nice if we only need to write code in one language. But in the
> real world the "nicer" & "easier" languages like Python & Perl are also the
> slower ones. I used to work for an investment bank, and our system was
> developed in Perl, with performance critical part rewritten in C/C++, so
> there really is nothing wrong with mixing languages. (But if you ask me, I
> would strongly prefer Go than C++.)
>
> Rayson
>
>
> I hope that the packaging technologies are considered as part of the TC
> evaluation of a new language. While many alternative approaches are
> available, a language which could not be packaged into RPM or DEB would be
> an additional burden for distro builders and deployers.
>
> Does Go present any additional work compared to Python in this area ?
>
> Tim
>
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> >
> > If you want to write code in a language that's not Python, go start
> another project. Don't call it OpenStack. If it ends up being a better
> implementation than the reference OpenStack Swift implementation, it will
> win anyways and perhaps Swift will start to look more like the rest of the
> projects in OpenStack with a standardized API and multiple plugable
> implementations.
> >
> > -Ben Swartzlander
> >
> >
> >> Also worth noting, is that go is not a "language runtime" but a compiler
> >> (that happens to statically link in a runtime to the binaries it
> >> produces...).
> >>
> >> The point here though, is that the versions of Python that OpenStack
> >> has traditionally supported have been directly tied to what the Linux
> >> distributions carry in their repositories (case in point, Python 2.6
> >> was dropped from most things as soon as RHEL7 was available with Python
> >> 2.7). With Go, there might need to be similar restrictions.
> >>
> >>
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