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Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

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Re: Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

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Post by artursapek »

rhencke wrote: post #19
artursapek wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well lots of software like Ruby is a pain in the ass to install. Package managers make plenty of sense there. But Go is as easy as it comes. I was just offering that since this seems like a time-sensitive update.

This has nothing to do with Go being easy or hard to install, and everything to do with giving people a uniform way to manage installation, updates and removal of software, independent of what software that is.

OK. Well, for what it's worth, I use ubuntu and find it much easier to install Go using their website than using apt (which I do use for most things). Thanks for the downvotes guys.

Re: Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

#22

Post by rhencke »

artursapek wrote: post #21
rhencke wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has nothing to do with Go being easy or hard to install, and everything to do with giving people a uniform way to manage installation, updates and removal of software, independent of what software that is.

OK. Well, for what it's worth, I use ubuntu and find it much easier to install Go using their website than using apt (which I do use for most things). Thanks for the downvotes guys.

This was in reference to Homebrew, though. In Homebrew, installing Go is simply:

    brew install go
No sudo required, nor 'update' command required first, etc.

Re: Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

#23

Post by ben_jones »

thethirdone wrote: post #9
SwellJoe wrote: post #3

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Which problem do you mean? Both are relatively minor on a scale from "meh" to "OMG shut everything down!". Every major project has security bugs now and then. There are many mail clients that will send passwords over non-TLS links (that was standard practice for decades...and you can still convince many mail clients to do it without much fanfare). This change prevents foot-shooting and that's good, but, the fact that…

> Which problem do you mean? I was referring to the SMTP issue. I should have made that more clear. > Both are relatively minor on a scale from "meh" to "OMG shut everything down!". Every major project has security bugs now and then. Definitely. I don't think the problem itself is that bad. My main issue is that it was introduced with the ramifications in mind (see the original issue) and an RFC specifically stating…

Could you name any projects of a similar age, exposure, and utility, that don't have similar bugs? Furthermore a comparison between the vulnerability and discoverability dates - I think Go would prove well above average here...

Re: Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

#26

Post by donatj »

artursapek wrote: post #12
spiffcs wrote: post #5

If we installed with brew how long for 1.9.1 to propagate there?

Go is really easy to install manually. Just download from the official golang.org website.

I’ve been installing Go from source since back when that was necessary to get cross compilation working, and have continued because I am a crazy person. It only takes a couple minutes and a previous version of Goto do.

I can probably stop now.

Re: Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

#27

Post by [deleted] »

artursapek wrote: post #21
rhencke wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has nothing to do with Go being easy or hard to install, and everything to do with giving people a uniform way to manage installation, updates and removal of software, independent of what software that is.

OK. Well, for what it's worth, I use ubuntu and find it much easier to install Go using their website than using apt (which I do use for most things). Thanks for the downvotes guys.

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Re: Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

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Post by DrJokepu »

rhencke wrote: post #22
artursapek wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK. Well, for what it's worth, I use ubuntu and find it much easier to install Go using their website than using apt (which I do use for most things). Thanks for the downvotes guys.

This was in reference to Homebrew, though. In Homebrew, installing Go is simply: brew install go No sudo required, nor 'update' command required first, etc.

I don’t use Homebrew, given that Go is now written in Go, how does Homebrew bootstrap it when there are no binaries available? Does it download Go 1.4, builds it with a C compiler and uses that to build the latest version?

Re: Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 are released

#30

Post by saagarjha »

DrJokepu wrote: post #28
rhencke wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was in reference to Homebrew, though. In Homebrew, installing Go is simply: brew install go No sudo required, nor 'update' command required first, etc.

I don’t use Homebrew, given that Go is now written in Go, how does Homebrew bootstrap it when there are no binaries available? Does it download Go 1.4, builds it with a C compiler and uses that to build the latest version?

Based on this[1] it appears to be running this[2] bootstrap script, which I believe uses make.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/bootstrap.bash

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