Sort of off topic, but one thing I really enjoy about the Go project is how open development and intent is. In addition to this, the Go team has shared plans (and invited discussion) for many things, some examples:<p>Internal changes: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e8kOo3r51b2BWtTs_1uADIA5djfXhPT36s6eHVRIvaU/edit" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e8kOo3r51b2BWtTs_1uADIA5...</a><p>Linker overhaul: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xN-g6qjjWflecSP08LNgh2uFsKjWb-rR9KA11ip_DIE/edit" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xN-g6qjjWflecSP08LNgh2uF...</a><p>Garbage collector changes: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Y4IsnNRCN43Mx0NZc5YXZLovrHvvLhK_h0KN8woTO4/edit" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Y4IsnNRCN43Mx0NZc5YXZLo...</a>
Ditto on the Darwin builds.<p>Since Apple ditched the Xserve forever ago and the legal issues of Mac OSX on non-apple hardware, builds on mac are a pain in the ass for everyone. You get to buy your Mac Pro, deal with VMware when you want to build for more than one OS (which of course means someone always loses days at a time doing something minor), and hope you have a nice 6U square peg available for your cylindrical trashcan peg.
Sweet. I’m in the same boat, using buildbot to produce binary packages (from git) for Debian unstable and the most recent Ubuntu release.<p>I’m particularly interested in the orchestration part of what they come up with in order to quickly boot VMs on GCE (or other cloud providers), do a build, and turn them down again.
Should I assume that this topic directly relates to building Go the language and not Go binaries that we use Go to write?<p>I see some comments here that seem like overkill for building cross-platform binaries which is why I ask.
<i>For Windows, we throw out some of our principles...</i><p>I hope that they saw the Drawbridge announcement[0] and discussion[1].<p>[0] <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/" rel="nofollow">http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8257250" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8257250</a>