Re: [PATCH 5/5] gitignore: Ignore golang package directory

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On May 26, 2020, at 5:21 PM, Nick Rosbrook <rosbrookn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> With golang, you don’t really distribute package binaries; you only 
>> distribute source files.
>> 
>> However, we don’t want to wait until someone tries to clone the package to 
>> see if we’ve broken the build; so the current makefile does a “build test” 
>> of the package files.
>> 
>> Before golang’s “modules” feature, the only way to do this was to have the 
>> code to build inside $GOPATH/src/$PACKAGENAME.  We can set GOPATH but we 
>> can’t change the “src” component of that.  So we used to set GOPATH to 
>> $XENROOT/tools/golang, put the files in 
>> $XENROOT/tools/golang/src/$PACKAGENAME, and 
>> 
>> With the “modules” feature, code can be built anywhere; the build at the 
>> moment doesn’t require GOPATH.
>> 
>> If we’re willing to limit ourselves to using versions of golang which 
>> support modules by default (1.12+), then we can probably get rid of this bit 
>> instead.  (And if we do want to support older versions, we should really add 
>> some code in the configure script to determine whether to build with modules 
>> or GOPATH.)
>> 
>> Nick, any opinions?
> 
> I can't think of a reason we need to support anything older than go
> 1.11, so I think it would be fine to get rid of remnants of the GOPATH
> build.

OK, I’ll send a patch to remove the “fake GOPATH build” support.

 -George