Category Archives: Go

No minor versions in Go import paths

This post provides the background for a deliberate and important decision in the design of gopkg.in that people often wonder about: while the service does support full versions in tag and branch names (as in “v1.2” or “v1.2.3”), the URL … Continue reading

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Improvements on gopkg.in

Early last year the gopkg.in service was introduced with the goal of encouraging Go developers to establish strategies that enable existent software to remain working while package APIs evolve. After the initial discussions and experimentation that went into defining the … Continue reading

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mgo r2014.10.12

A new release of the mgo MongoDB driver for Go is out, packed with contributions and features. But before jumping into the change list, there’s a note in the release of MongoDB 2.7.7 a few days ago that is worth … Continue reading

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Packing resources into Go qml binaries

The qml package is right now one of the best choices for creating graphic applications under the Go language. Part of the reason why this is true comes from the convenience of QML, a high-level domain-specific language that allows describing … Continue reading

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Announcing yaml v2 for Go

There were a few long standing issues in the yaml.v1 package which were being postponed so that they could be done at once in a single incompatible change, and the time has come: yaml.v2 is now available. Besides these incompatible … Continue reading

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The new Go qml OpenGL API

As detailed in the preliminary release of qml.v1 for Go a couple of weeks ago, my next task was to finish the improvements in its OpenGL API. Good progress has happened since then, and the new API is mostly done … Continue reading

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Announcing qml v1 for Go

After a few weeks of slow progress on the qml package for Go, action is starting again. The first important change is the release of the new v1 API, which is motivated by conversations and debugging sessions we’ve had at … Continue reading

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Go QML Contest results

Yesterday at GopherCon I had the chance to sit together with Dave Cheney and Jamu Kakar to judge the entries received for the Go QML Contest. The result was already announced today, live at the second day of GopherCon, including … Continue reading

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Arbitrary Qt extensions with Go QML

As part of the on going work on Ubuntu Touch phones, I was invited to contribute a Go package to interface with ubuntuoneauth, a C++ and Qt library that authenticates against Ubuntu One using the system account made available by … Continue reading

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Go QML Contest

UPDATE: The contest result is out. A couple of weeks ago a probe message was sent to a few places questioning whether there would be enough interest on a development contest involving Go QML applications. Since the result was quite … Continue reading

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