[Fedora-packaging] guidelines for go?

[Dan Horák]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:43:19 -0400
Vincent Batts <vbatts at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 22/09/13 14:34 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:07:20AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> I'm beginning to _strongly_ believe that we should follow the
> >> debian idea here:
> >> https://wiki.debian.org/MichaelStapelberg/GoPackaging and not
> >> package pre-compiled Go libraries at all (outside of the standard
> >> library).
> >
> >Update -- "official" debian guidelines are at:
> >
> >http://pkg-go.alioth.debian.org/packaging.html
> >
> >(based on the previous link above but more fleshed-out).
> 
> so here is something else to vet out, like the work done for the ruby
> RPMS. Since there is support API versioning for the go language, how
> best to accommodate that in the requires/provides? Currently the
> language spec is 'go1', so everything in the 1.x version _will_ comply
> to this spec. Eventually they'll have a go2, etc.
> 
> Should the 'golang' package have a:
> 	Provides: golang(release) = 'go1'
> 	
> The binaries would have a BuildRequires and libraries would Require,
> to match the API version?

and what about the go compiler in the GCC? Its advantage is broader
architecture support than golang which is x86/x86_64/arm only.


		Dan