Go & Versioning

Russ Cox
February 20, 2018
research.swtch.com/vgo

Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2018.

These are the posts in the February 2018 “Go & Versioning” series:

• “Go += Package Versioning” [PDF].
• “A Tour of Versioned Go (vgo)” [PDF].
• “Semantic Import Versioning” [PDF].
• “Minimal Version Selection” [PDF].
• “Reproducible, Verifiable, Verified Builds” [PDF].
• “Defining Go Modules” [PDF].
• “Versioned Go Commands” [PDF].

The official Go proposal is at https://golang.org/issue/24301, filed on March 20, 2018 and accepted on May 21, 2018.

These are followup posts:

• “The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?” [PDF].
• “What is Software Engineering?” [PDF].
• “Why Add Versions To Go?” [PDF].
• “The Principles of Versioning in Go” [PDF].