Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> writes: > * On 2015-11-25 at 13:29 GMT, Roland Illig wrote: > >> Log Message: >> Updated pkglint to 5.0 >> >> Notable changes include: >> * The whole code has been rewritten in Go > > That's .. interesting, I guess. Please could you re-import the > previous version, maybe as pkgtools/pkglint4, for all the users who > cannot run Go programs on their target platform? My reaction was that it wasn't April 1 :-) In all seriousness, go appears to be an awkward language to use for tools, because not only does go 1.5 seem to work only on 3 cputypes, but one has to build older go first in order to build newer go. That doesn't bode well for the future, as it seems to be going down the Haskell path, where either the maintainers don't get that self-hosting without both a maintained bootstrap from C leads to nonportability, or they don't care. This definitely should have been discussed...
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