This document lists public interfaces and features that are deprecated and will be removed soon, as well as features that have already been removed. For each item in this document, the deprecation rationale is listed, along with the last supported rules_go release and the release when the functionality is scheduled to be removed.
No major features are deprecated right now.
Go 1.8
Deprecated in: 0.12.0
Removed in: 0.13.0
Rationale: Go 1.8 is no longer officially supported. Newer versions of
the Go toolchain provide options that let us streamline the compile and link
process. The
-importcfg option in particular will let us reduce
symlinking before compiling.Migration:
go_register_toolchains() automatically selects the newest
version of Go unless a version is explicitly specified.rules_go gazelle rule
Deprecated in: 0.13.0
Removed in: 0.15.0
Rationale: This lets us reduce coupling between rules_go and Gazelle.
With this change, we should be able to remove the automatic dependency
on
@bazel_gazelle.Migration: gazelle fix will change the load for the
gazelle rule
from @io_bazel_rules_go//go:def.bzl to @bazel_gazelle//:def.bzl.go_prefix
Deprecated in: 0.12.0
Removed in: 0.13.0
Rationale: Historically, the
importpath of go_library was
determined by its position in the repository relative to //:go_prefix.
This implicit dependency has made it difficult to support repositories where
Go is not at the root of the tree. We have encouraged explicit importpath
attributes for several releases. go_prefix will be removed and
importpath will be mandatory for go_library and go_proto_library.Migration: Gazelle sets
importpath automatically.library attribute
Deprecated in: 0.9.0
Removed in: 0.12.0
Rationale: The
library attribute in go_library, go_binary,
and go_test was replaced with the embed attribute, which allows
multiple libraries to be embedded instead of just one. We plan to remove
library to simplify our implementation.linkstamp attribute
Deprecated in: 0.9.0
Removed in: 0.12.0
Rationale: The
linkstamp has been made entirely redundant by
x_defs, which allows multiple stamped variables in both go_binary
and go_library.Migration: Requires a manual change. gazelle fix can't replace these,
since it would require knowing which symbols will be stamped.
Legacy go_repository and new_go_repository
Deprecated in: 0.12.0
Removed in: 0.13.0
The
go_repository rule has moved from @io_bazel_rules_go to
@bazel_gazelle. Gazelle is a core part of go_repository, and moving
go_repository to that repository allows us to reduce rules_go's
dependence on Gazelle.Migration: gazelle fix automatically updates WORKSPACE files to use
the new
go_repository.go_sdk and go_repositories repository rules
Deprecated in: 0.7.0
Removed in: 0.12.0
Rationale:
go_sdk is redundant with the go_host_sdk_,
go_download_sdk, and go_local_sdk rules. go_repositories should
not be used anymore; go_rules_dependencies and go_register_toolchains
should be called instead.Migration: Requires a manual change to WORKSPACE.
cgo_library and cgo_genrule
Deprecated in: 0.5.3
Removed in: 0.12.0
Rationale: These rules are redundant with
go_library with
cgo = True.Legacy go_proto_library.bzl
Deprecated in: 0.9.0
Removed in: 0.12.0
Rationale: We have a new set of proto rules in
@io_bazel_rules_go//proto:def.bzl. There's no need to preserve the rules
in go_proto_library.bzl.Migration: Gazelle generates new proto rules automatically when run with
-proto=default or # gazelle:proto default.