[OE-core] [PATCH v4 00/13] go1.10 update and misc improvements

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 9:44 AM, Matt Madison <matt at madison.systems> wrote:
>>> Since it looks like I'll have to do a v5 on my series anyway, I can
>>> pull in that backport for the aarch64 issue.
>>
>> sure,  I would suggest we keep 1.9 around as well.
>
> I am against. Go is good to provide backward compatibility and keeping
> both just causes people to delay the update. We have some time to
> April release and thus any regression will be ironed out. Possibly
> wait until 1.10.1 is out but keeping two releases I am unsure it is
> needed.

Your disagreement is acknowledged.
There are larger systems written in go which haven't moved to go 1.10
and I know for sure influxdb and grafana are not working with 1.10
and there might be many more real world programs which will be in same
boat. This is no different then what we do with gcc releases where we
overlap them for couple of releases to smooth out transition.