From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 09:33:41 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 90ca7288-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:12 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> python's requirements are a proper subset of go's, since building go requires >> python be installed. > > No, it doesn't. Using mercurial to clone the tree requires python, > building Go does not require python, nor mercurial. > Actually, how do you resolve the VERSION file problem? Go will not build from a perfectly clean hg clone without a working "hg". ++L