From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 16:47:40 +0000 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d041826f6038be204eca40e5b Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9179c86e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --f46d041826f6038be204eca40e5b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 3 December 2013 16:04, wrote: > To keep the Go distribution honest? Eventually, we'd want as much > convergence as possible, forking the library would make it easier to > diverge without consequences. > but it's not a question of forking the library. there's a ton of stuff under go/src, so what makes libbio special? why not just compile the one there for its use, which is the one it expects? the output goes into a go-specific target directory; what else will care? --f46d041826f6038be204eca40e5b Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 3 December 2013 16:04, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:<= br>
To keep the Go distribution hone= st? =C2=A0Eventually, we'd want as much
convergence as possible, forking the library would make it easier to
diverge without consequences.

but it's not = a question of forking the library. there's a ton of stuff under go/src,=
so what makes libbio special? why not just= compile the one there for its =C2=A0use, which is the one it expects?
the output goes into a go-specific target direct= ory; what else will care?
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