Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] tools/xenlight: Create xenlight Makefile

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Dec 16, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 12/15/16 5:20 PM, Ronald Rojas wrote:
>> Create a basic Makefile to build and install libxenlight Golang
>> bindings.  Also add a template.
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> Eventually this patch will contain the actual bindings package; for
>> now it just includes a stub package.
>> 
> 
> So I'm curious why the interest to include Golang bindings in the tree.
> Most people are going to expect a Go package to behave like any other go
> package and be able to grab it with "go get". But by including this in
> the tree I believe that method will not work.

My plan was to name the package such that we could have an 
automatically-mirrored git repo in the expected place; i.e.,

git://xenproject.org/xenlight

The “fetch the tree automatically based on the package name” distribution 
mechanism might be a decent fit for web-based technologies, but I think it’s a 
terrible fit for mature software projects like Xen; and I expect that there 
will be a shift in the next few years as people (re-)discover this.  I want to 
make it work, but I think that should be secondary to actually installing the 
library as a part of installing a Xen package / “make install”.

 -George

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