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150 comments, and nobody is mentioning the maximum version thing?

Am I alone in thinking that's a terrible idea, that having module authors around the globe define a maximum version is going to result in masses of libraries pinned needlessly to old versions, and masses of unmaintained but otherwise solid and complete libs unpinned, despite them now needing a maximum version pin?



Remember that they are only pinned to an old language version. They will still work fine with new release of Go, they will just be built with the old language semantics. So what's the harm?

I agree that unmaintained libraries that don't adapt to modules could be a problem. We'll have to see what happens.




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