Go packaging

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:37:46AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 09/29/2014 08:54 PM, Haïkel wrote:
> >Currently, there is *no* golang packaging guidelines approved, so we
> >shouldn't have accepted golang packages in the first place.
> 
> I think this is problematic considering that some other languages violates
> their language-specific packaging guidelines with complete impunity.  And
> some of those guidelines fall far short of what's being demanded from Go
> packages.
> 
> Go is held to absurdly high standards, and there's no clear reason for that.

Are you really making the argument: the other are bad so we can be too?

I have nothing at stake here, but I don't think you're making a valid point
here.

What would be interesting though, are tickets pointing out what is wrong in the
current guidelines and bug report against the package not following the
guidelines.

Pierre