Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 07:19:49PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> 
> > So hmm, you’re right!  I’m sure I saw go packages somewhere, dunno…
> 
> Just looked at the source: after my Go 1.11 update, Syncthing was updated to 
> use
> vendored dependencies, just like go-ipfs.  This is why it does not contains 
> any
> go ref.  From the package declaration:
> 
>               ;; Since the update to Go 1.11, Go programs have been keeping
>               ;; spurious references to all their dependencies:
>               ;; <https://bugs.gnu.org/33620>.
>               ;; For Syncthing, this increases the size of the 'out' closure
>               ;; from 87.6 MiB to 253.5 MiB.  So, we use the bundled
>               ;; dependencies until the bug is resolved.
>               
> So yup, "guix size" is not happy with Go...

Also, can we please keep this discussion in the bug report thread?

https://bugs.gnu.org/33620

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