02/07: build-system/go: Plan removal of the pkg folder for go-1.11 onward.

[Pierre Neidhardt]

ambrevar pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 0fd115d536d59e5160329546f09943c278b15cdb
Author: Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Nov 11 22:03:08 2018 +0100

    build-system/go: Plan removal of the pkg folder for go-1.11 onward.
    
    * guix/build/go-build-system.scm (install): New comment.
---
 guix/build/go-build-system.scm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/guix/build/go-build-system.scm b/guix/build/go-build-system.scm
index 6be0167..022d4fe 100644
--- a/guix/build/go-build-system.scm
+++ b/guix/build/go-build-system.scm
@@ -204,6 +204,9 @@ respectively."
 $GOPATH/pkg, so we have to copy them into the output directory manually.
 Compiled executable files should have already been installed to the store based
 on $GOBIN in the build phase."
+  ;; TODO: From go-1.10 onward, the pkg folder should not be needed (see
+  ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-11/msg00208.html).
+  ;; Remove it?
   (when (file-exists? "pkg")
     (copy-recursively "pkg" (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out") "/pkg")))
   #t)